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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 has received a variety of awards including the 2007 NATJA (North American Travel Journalists Association) Runner Up Award for Best Travel Article Written For Internet, the prestigious 2003 Golden Linchetto Prize for the best foreign journalist with published articles about Lucca, Italy, and in 2002 she received another international press award for journalism, I, Leonardo Award; A Few Words About Sicily.
Jacqueline’s work can be found in many newspapers, magazines, books and e-zines all across the USA, Canada and Europe. Her travel writing has tempted readers’ palates with mouth-watering meals.
In her memoir, Sono Claudio, she writes about her ten-year, long distance love affair. Facing middle age and afraid her 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 does 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, their romance sizzles with excitement and drama.
Her latest book, the 6th edition of The Travel Writers Handbook, co-authored with Louise Purwin Zobel, is available Fall 2006.
Feel free to contact Jacqueline at
www.JacquelineHarmonButler.com