Jacqueline Harmon Butler - Travel Writer

Jacqueline Harmon Butler

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.

She has contributed articles and stories to many newspapers, magazines, anthologies and online publications in the USA, Canada and Europe. She is a featured writer in the anthology, Wild Writing Women - Stories of World Travel, which was awarded first prize in the travel book category with the North American Travel Journalists Association. She is a member of Wild Writing Women who won the 2004-2005 Lowell Thomas Gold Award - the highest award for Internet Publications/Web site, WildWritingWomen.com, with special mention of the magazine title Taking Flight, our gift to first-time travelers with all you need to know to spread your wings and fly! This magazine also won NATJA Best Online Travel Magazine for 2004.

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.

Her latest book is the 6th edition of The Travel Writers Handbook, co-authored with Louise Purwin Zobel.

Feel free to or visit her website at: www.JacquelineHarmonButler.com or www.wildwritingwomen.com.