Linda Bruckheimer Explained

Linda Bruckheimer
Birth Name:Linda Sue Cobb
Birth Place:Texas, U.S.
Spouse:Jerry Bruckheimer

Linda Sue Bruckheimer (Cobb) 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 in Texas and grew up in Louisville, Kentucky.[1] [2] [3] She moved to California with her family as a teenager.[2]

Career

Bruckheimer 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]

Bruckheimer has written two best-selling semi-autobiographical novels about the American South.[2] [3] Her first novel, Dreaming Southern, 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

Bruckheimer 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]

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.[7]

Personal life

Bruckheimer is married to Jerry Bruckheimer, a television and film producer.[1] [2] [3] They reside in Los Angeles, California.[3] [4]

Bibliography

Notes and References

  1. Thomas S. Watson, 'Wife of blockbusting producer restores town', Daily News, October 11, 1998 https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1696&dat=19981011&id=5voaAAAAIBAJ&sjid=2kcEAAAAIBAJ&pg=5373,1648854
  2. Jan Lindstrom Valerio, Belle of bluegrass country, Variety, July 9, 2006
  3. Web site: The Linda Bruckheimer Collection. Nettie Jarvis Antiques.
  4. http://www.penguin.com/author/linda-bruckheimer/1000037664 Penguin: Linda Bruckheimer
  5. Web site: Dreaming Southern by Linda Bruckheimer. Linda Bruckheimer. Penguin Books USA.
  6. Web site: The Southern Belles of Honeysuckle Way by Linda Bruckheimer . Linda Bruckheimer. Penguin Books USA.
  7. Web site: Glamour in the Hills: An Evening at the Historic Liliore Green-Rains Estate. Los Angeles Conservancy. October 19, 2016.