Linda Bruckheimer
Linda Bruckheimer | |
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| Born | Linda Sue Cobb July 9, 1945 |
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| Spouse(s) | Jerry Bruckheimer |
Linda Sue Bruckheimer (née Cobb; born July 9, 1945)[1] is an American editor, novelist, and philanthropist. She is the author of two best-selling novels. She has restored many buildings in Bloomfield, Kentucky.
Early life[]
Bruckheimer was born as Linda Sue Cobb in Victoria County, Texas and grew up in Louisville, Kentucky.[2][3][4] She moved to California with her family as a teenager.[3]
Career[]
Bruckheimer worked as the West Coast editor of Mirabella from 1989 to 1995.[2][3][5] She then worked as a writer and producer for animations for PBS.[3][5]
Bruckheimer has written two best-selling semi-autobiographical novels about the American South.[3][4] Her first novel, Dreaming Southern, published in 1999, talks about a family who leaves Kentucky to go West.[3][6] 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.[3][7]
Philanthropy[]
Bruckheimer has served on the Board of Trustees of the National Trust for Historic Preservation.[3] She has restored many buildings in Bloomfield, Kentucky.[2][3] In 1998, she and her husband were grand marshals of the Bloomfield Tobacco Festival parade.[2]
Bruckheimer co-curated a fundraising gala for the Los Angeles Conservancy, a historic preservation organization, at the Beverly Hills estate of Liliore Green, Burton E. Green's daughter, on October 22, 2016.[8]
Personal life[]
Bruckheimer is married to Jerry Bruckheimer, a television and film producer.[2][3][4] They reside in Los Angeles, California.[4][5]
Bibliography[]
- Dreaming Southern (Penguin, 1999)
- The Southern Belles of Honeysuckle Way (Penguin, 2005)
References[]
- ^ a b Texas, Birth Index, 1903-1997
- ^ a b c d e Thomas S. Watson, 'Wife of blockbusting producer restores town', Daily News, October 11, 1998 [1]
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j Jan Lindstrom Valerio, Belle of bluegrass country, Variety, July 9, 2006
- ^ a b c d "The Linda Bruckheimer Collection". Nettie Jarvis Antiques.
- ^ a b c Penguin: Linda Bruckheimer
- ^ Linda Bruckheimer. "Dreaming Southern by Linda Bruckheimer". Penguin Books USA.
- ^ Linda Bruckheimer. "The Southern Belles of Honeysuckle Way by Linda Bruckheimer". Penguin Books USA.
- ^ "Glamour in the Hills: An Evening at the Historic Liliore Green-Rains Estate". Los Angeles Conservancy. Retrieved October 19, 2016.
- 1945 births
- Living people
- Writers from Louisville, Kentucky
- People from Nelson County, Kentucky
- Writers from Los Angeles
- American women novelists
- 20th-century American novelists
- 21st-century American novelists
- 20th-century American women writers
- 21st-century American women writers
- Novelists from Kentucky
- Kentucky women writers