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

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

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

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

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

Bibliography

  • Dreaming Southern (Penguin, 1999)
  • The Southern Belles of Honeysuckle Way (Penguin, 2005)

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 Jan Lindstrom Valerio, Belle of bluegrass country, Variety, July 9, 2006
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 Thomas S. Watson, 'Wife of blockbusting producer restores town', Daily News, October 11, 1998
  3. 1 2 3 4 "The Linda Bruckheimer Collection". Nettie Jarvis Antiques.
  4. 1 2 3 Penguin: Linda Bruckheimer
  5. ↑ Linda Bruckheimer. "Dreaming Southern by Linda Bruckheimer". Penguin Books USA.
  6. ↑ Linda Bruckheimer. "The Southern Belles of Honeysuckle Way by Linda Bruckheimer". Penguin Books USA.
  7. ↑ "Glamour in the Hills: An Evening at the Historic Liliore Green-Rains Estate". Los Angeles Conservancy. Retrieved October 19, 2016.
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