Bruce Littlefield
| Bruce Littlefield | |
|---|---|
| Born | South Carolina |
| Residence | New York, New York |
| Occupation | Author, television contributor, restaurateur, actor, model |
| Website | |
| brucelittefield.com | |
Bruce Littlefield is an American author, businessman, actor, model, and TV contributor. He is the regarded as the American "lifestyle authority".[1] He has been called a “Modern Day Erma Bombeck”,[2] a “Garage Sale Guru”,[3] the “Flea Market King” [4] and is featured as a “design and lifestyle guru” on Howdini.com.[5]
He is the author of numerous books, including an Americana series with Harper Collins, and Use What You’ve Got with real estate magnate and ABC Shark Tank star Barbara Corcoran and My Two Moms with civil rights advocate Zach Wahls. He appears on television, having made notable TV lifestyle segments on NBC’s Today Show, CBS’s Early Show, and ABC’s The View, and has also ghostwritten and/or co-written several books.[citation needed]
Education and career
Littlefield was born in South Carolina and graduated in 1985 from Brookland-Cayce High School in Cayce, South Carolina. He went to the University of South Carolina on scholarship[6] where he wrote for The Daily Gamecock newspaper, and graduated in 1989 Phi Beta Kappa and “Outstanding Senior” with a degree in broadcast journalism.[7])
After graduation, Littlefield moved to New York City and worked as a model and an actor (was Pinocchio in a national tour), until being awarded scholarships by the Freedom Forum and Mortar Board to do graduate studies. He obtained his MA in journalism from NYU’s School of Journalism in 1995.
Littlefield has appeared on NBC, CBS, ABC News, FOX News, MSNBC, The Rachael Ray Show, NPR,[2] Sirius, and numerous other programs, and has been featured in the New York Times,[1] the Boston Globe, the New York Post, People Magazine, the National Enquirer, OK! Magazine, Saveur, This Old House,[8] the New York Daily News, Miami Herald, The Boston Herald, Chicago Tribune, the Los Angeles Times, and many other publications.
In 2002, with partner Scott Stewart, a Senior Vice President at the Corcoran Group [9] ), he opened The Rosendale Cement Company restaurant in Rosendale, New York, and then in 2005 opened a second restaurant, The Alamo: Mexican Food Worth Fighting For.[10]
In 2010, Littlefield was a holiday spokesperson for TJ Maxx and Marshalls, making promotional TV appearances in major markets around the United States.[11]
Bibliography
Sole authorship
- Airstream Living (2005) ISBN 0060833068
- Garage Sale America (2007) ISBN 0061151653
- Merry Christmas America (2007) ISBN 0061348295
- The Bedtime Book for Dogs (2011) ISBN 0446575917
- Moving In: Tales of an Unlicensed Marriage (2013) ISBN 1480050814
Collaborations
- (With Barbara Corcoran) Use What You’ve Got and Other Business Lessons I Learned from My Mom (2003) ISBN 1591840023
- (With Zach Wahls) My Two Moms: Lessons of Love, Strength, and What Makes a Family with Zach Wahls (2012) ISBN 1592407137
- (With Lis Wiehl) Lis Wiehl’s Truth Advantage: The 7 Keys to a Happy and Fulfilling Life (2012) ISBN 1118025156
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 "Accessorizing a Catskills Farmhouse With a Past". New York Times.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 "Bruce Littlefield - Moving Day (aired 5/7/09)". NPR Roundtable.
- ↑ "Heed the teachings of this garage-sale guru". USA Today.
- ↑ "Meet Bruce Littlefield, flea-market king". Boston Globe.
- ↑ "Welcome To Our Guru Page". Houdini.com.
- ↑ "South Carolina Scholastic Press Association".
- ↑ "Bruce Littlefield".
- ↑ "Josh Garskof. "Rooms With a View".
- ↑ "Corcoran, Scott Stewart, SVP".
- ↑ "The Whole Enchilada".
- ↑ "December 16: Author - Bruce Littlefield, Merry Christmas, America!".