Linda Bruckheimer

Linda Bruckheimer
Born Linda Sue Cobb
(1945-07-09) July 9, 1945
Victoria County, Texas, United States[1]
Residence Los Angeles, California
Occupation Editor, novelist, philanthropist
Spouse(s) 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.

Biography

Early life

Linda Sue Cobb was born 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

She 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]

She 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

She 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]

Personal life

She is married to Jerry Bruckheimer, a television and film producer.[2][3][4] They reside in Los Angeles, California.[4][5]

Bibliography

References

  1. 1 2 Texas, Birth Index, 1903-1997
  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 5 6 7 8 9 10 Jan Lindstrom Valerio, Belle of bluegrass country, Variety, July 9, 2006
  4. 1 2 3 4 "The Linda Bruckheimer Collection". Nettie Jarvis Antiques.
  5. 1 2 3 Penguin: Linda Bruckheimer
  6. ↑ Linda Bruckheimer. "Dreaming Southern by Linda Bruckheimer - Penguin Books USA". Penguin Books USA.
  7. ↑ Linda Bruckheimer. "The Southern Belles of Honeysuckle Way by Linda Bruckheimer - Penguin Books USA". Penguin Books USA.
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