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