Linda Bruckheimer
Linda Bruckheimer | |
|---|---|
| Born | Linda Sue Cobb July 9, 1945 |
| Occupation(s) | Editor, novelist, philanthropist |
| Spouse | 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
Linda Sue 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". Penguin Books USA.
- ^ Linda Bruckheimer. "The Southern Belles of Honeysuckle Way by Linda Bruckheimer - Penguin Books USA". Penguin Books USA.
- ^ "Glamour in the Hills: An Evening at the Historic Liliore Green-Rains Estate". Los Angeles Conservancy. Retrieved October 19, 2016.