Linda Bruckheimer
| Linda Bruckheimer | |
|---|---|
| Born |
Linda Sue Cobb Texas |
| Residence | Los Angeles, California |
| Occupation | Editor, novelist, philanthropist |
| Spouse(s) | Jerry Bruckheimer |
Linda Bruckheimer is an American editor, novelist and philanthropist. She is the author of two best-selling novels. She has restored many buildings in Bloomfield, Kentucky.
Biography
Early life
Linda Sue Cobb was born in Texas and grew up in Louisville, Kentucky.[1][2][3] She moved to California with her family as a teenager.[2]
Career
She worked as the West Coast editor of Mirabella from 1989 to 1995.[1][2][4] She then worked as a writer and producer for animations for PBS.[2][4]
She has written two best-selling semi-autobiographical novels about the American South.[2][3] Her first novel, Dreaming South, published in 1999, talks about a family who leaves Kentucky to go West.[2][5] Her second novel, The Southern Belles of Honeysuckle Way, published in 2005, is about the family's return to Kentucky to celebrate a matriarch's seventy-fifth birthday.[2][6]
Philanthropy
She has served on the Board of Trustees of the National Trust for Historic Preservation.[2] She has restored many buildings in Bloomfield, Kentucky.[1][2] In 1998, she and her husband were grand marshals of the Bloomfield Tobacco Festival parade.[1]
Personal life
She is married to Jerry Bruckheimer, a television and film producer.[1][2][3] They reside in Los Angeles, California.[3][4]
Bibliography
- Dreaming South (Penguin, 1999).
- The Southern Belles of Honeysuckle Way (Penguin, 2005).
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 Thomas S. Watson, 'Wife of blockbusting producer restores town', Daily News, October 11, 1998
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 2.6 2.7 2.8 2.9 Jan Lindstrom Valerio, Belle of bluegrass country, Variety, July 9, 2006
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 Nettie Jarvis Antiques: The Linda Bruckheimer Collection
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 Penguin: Linda Bruckheimer
- ↑ Penguin: Dreaming South
- ↑ Penguin: The Southern Belles of Honeysuckle Way