Linda 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.

Linda Bruckheimer
Born	Linda Sue Cobb[1] Texas, U.S.
Occupations	Editor novelist philanthropist
Spouse	Jerry Bruckheimer

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)