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Linda Bruckheimer
Born

Linda Sue Cobb[1]


Texas, U.S.
Occupations
  • Editor
  • novelist
  • philanthropist
  • SpouseJerry Bruckheimer

    Linda Sue Bruckheimer (née 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[edit]

    Bruckheimer was born in Texas and grew up in Louisville, Kentucky.[2][1][3] She moved to California with her family as a teenager.[1]

    Career[edit]

    Bruckheimer worked as the West Coast editor of Mirabella from 1989 to 1995.[2][1][4] She then worked as a writer and producer for animations for PBS.[1][4]

    Bruckheimer has written two best-selling semi-autobiographical novels about the American South.[1][3] Her first novel, Dreaming Southern, published in 1999, talks about a family who leaves Kentucky to go West.[1][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.[1][6]

    Philanthropy[edit]

    Bruckheimer has served on the board of trustees of the National Trust for Historic Preservation.[1] She has restored many buildings in Bloomfield, Kentucky.[2][1] 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.[7]

    Personal life[edit]

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

    Bibliography[edit]

    References[edit]

    1. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k Jan Lindstrom Valerio, Belle of bluegrass country, Variety, July 9, 2006
  • ^ a b c d e Thomas S. Watson, 'Wife of blockbusting producer restores town', Daily News, October 11, 1998 [1]
  • ^ 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.

  • Retrieved from "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Linda_Bruckheimer&oldid=1209081293"

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