Member
Jacqueline Harmon Butler
3 Circle Drive #BTiburon CA 94920 United States
415-380-8466
jam747@earthlink.net
External Website
http://www.jacquelineharmonbutler.com
Biography
Jacqueline Harmon Butler saw the movie "An American in Paris" at an impressionable age and dreamed of being an artist there. Instead she spent her formative years hanging out in San Francisco’s North Beach with the Beat Generation, wearing a black beret, writing stories and painting. It wasn’t until she had married, divorced, and raised two children that she visited Paris. It was love at first sight.
Jacqueline began to write about her travels and compiled files of stories and data. In 1996, she decided to investigate the possibilities of becoming a travel writer and enrolled in a weekend travel writing conference. She won the second place writing award and her career was launched.
Credits
Jacqueline Harmon Butler received the 2003 Golden Linchetto Prize for the best foreign journalist with published articles about Lucca for her story City Girl on a Small Farm in Tuscany. In 2002 Ms. Butler received another international press award for journalism, I, Leonardo Award; A Few Words About Sicily, for her story The Fire of Mt. Etna.
Jacqueline’s writing can be found in many newspapers, magazines and ezines. She is a contributing editor to the anthology, Wild Writing Women: Stories of World Travel, (Globe Pequot Press, April 2002) which won the North American Travel Journalists Association award for best travel book of 2002. A clip from "City Girl" can be found in Sand in My Bra, (Travelers Tales May 2003) which won the North American Travel Journalists Association award for best travel book of 2003.
In her memoir, Sono Claudio, she writes about her ten-year, long distance love affair. Facing middle age and afraid my love life was over, she traveled to Italy and was pursued by and fell in love with a much younger man, much to the dismay of her adult children and friends. How did she deal with the problems of age, distance and language? Any one of these factors could be a fatal flaw in a love affair. From Lucca to San Francisco and the hill towns of Tuscany,her romance sizzles with excitement and drama.
For more information about Jacqueline, please visit http://www.jacquelineharmonbutler.com
Affiliations
Wild Writing Women™ LLC
Romance Writers of America
Bay Area Travel Writers
NATJA