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About Jacqueline
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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.
She began to write about her travels and compiled copious files of stories and data after that first trip on 1979. 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.
Jacqueline’s writing can be found in numerous newspapers, magazines and ezines, as well as many international publications. 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. She is a member of Wild Writing Women whose ezine won the 2004 National Association of Travel Writers first place award for our online magazine Taking Flight.
Ms. 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 she received another international press award for journalism: I, Leonardo Award; A Few Words About Sicily, for her story The Fire of Mt. Etna.
Her latest book is the 6th Edition of The Travel Writer's Handbook, (Surrey Books, fall 2007).
Jacqueline is in the process of revising her memoir, Sono Claudio, Taking a Chance on Love. Facing middle age I thought my love life was over – until I traveled to Italy and was pursued by and fell in love with a much younger man, much to the dismay of my adult children and friends. From Lucca to San Francisco, the hill towns of Tuscany, our romance sizzles with excitement and drama.
She is currently working on another novel, One Last Trip to Paris. This is the story of Julie Taylor, 50-year-old career woman who is diagnosed with inoperable brain aneurysm. She is given 6 months to live. She liquidates all her assets, leaves San Francisco to go and live her final months in Paris, France.
Professional organizations:
Romance Writers of America
Wild Writing Women LLC
Bay Area Travel Writers
North American Travel Journalists Association
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© 2008 Jacqueline Harmon Butler. All rights reserved.
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