Linnu tiivul : mõtteid & mälestusi

Dr. Erik Linnolt was born in 1920 in Pärnu, which in his later memoirs he recalls as a symbol of a white city on the shores of the Mediterranean. In 1939 he graduated from the Higher Military School and entered service in the garrison of the President of Estonia at Oru Palace. A year later, he became a medical student at the University of Tartu.

In 1943, a military draft brought the author into the German army, where, as a Hilfswilliger, he gained his first medical experience. In the autumn of 1944, fate helped him — E. Linnolt escaped to the West. In Stockholm, he became a student at the Karolinska Institute. Summers in Sweden passed while working as a substitute physician. With his medical diploma, he left together with his wife, writer and actress Asta Willmann, “beyond Stalin” — to Canada. The beauty of British Columbia’s nature was wild and enchanting.

In 1959, the Linnolts moved to the American East Coast. In a private psychiatric hospital in Hartford, the capital of Connecticut, he earned his qualification as a psychiatrist. Here he worked until his retirement in 1996.

It was in Connecticut that On the Wings of a Bird was born — a memoir written with a probing mind and a brilliant style, recounting a life lived in many dimensions.