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