MEET BRUCE
Southern charm, New York instincts, and a lifelong habit of finding the fun.
The Arbiter of American Fun
Bruce Littlefield is a bestselling author, television personality, designer, and professional appreciator of American fun. The author and co-author of 20 books, Bruce has made a career of following his curiosity into garage sales, flower markets, Airstream trailers, Christmas wonderlands, celebrity real estate, dog wisdom, and the occasional heap of chaos.
His newest book, Everything You Need to Know About Life You Can Learn from a Dog, from Nancy Paulsen Books / Penguin Random House, is a funny and heartfelt celebration of dogs as the life coaches we never knew we needed. He is also the co-author, with Calvert Crary, of The Encyclopedia of Cut Flowers, a joyful guide to buying, arranging, and keeping flowers beautiful.
Bruce’s books include the HarperCollins adventures Garage Sale America, Merry Christmas, America, and Airstream Living, as well as The Bedtime Book for Dogs, written with actual words dogs know and children love to read aloud. As a collaborator, he has helped some of America’s biggest personalities tell their stories, including the bestsellers Use What You’ve Got and Shark Tales with Shark Tank star Barbara Corcoran, the international bestseller The Sell with Bravo’s Fredrik Eklund, and the bestselling My Two Moms with civil rights advocate Zach Wahls.
Bruce has appeared on NBC, CBS, ABC News, FOX News, MSNBC, The Rachael Ray Show, NPR, SiriusXM, and many other programs. His work and adventures have been featured in The New York Times, People, Saveur, This Old House, The Boston Globe, The New York Post, New York Daily News, Miami Herald, Chicago Tribune, and Los Angeles Times. His antics have also been known to escape into the gossip pages.
Bruce grew up in a small South Carolina town, where he developed an early appreciation for good stories, unforgettable characters, Southern charm, and making life more interesting than it strictly needs to be. He graduated Phi Beta Kappa and Outstanding Senior from the University of South Carolina, then moved to New York City as a model. After brief immortality in Clearasil ads and on the cover of When a Child Kills, he was named a Freedom Forum Scholar and received a full scholarship to New York University, where he earned a master’s degree in journalism.
In addition to his books and television work, Bruce has owned and designed two award-winning restaurants and has brought his eye for design and reinvention to homes around the country. His favorite ongoing project is Edgewater Farm, his former Dirty Dancing-era bungalow colony in the Catskills: part home, part creative laboratory, part design adventure, and part proof that a good story can come with a porch, a garden, and a few skunks trying to get involved.
Bruce’s work has earned numerous honors, including an Audie Award for best business book, a Christopher Award for humanitarian journalism, and national recognition from the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences, which named his master’s thesis the country’s “Best News/Public Affairs Program.”
Whether he is writing about dogs, flowers, houses, holidays, entrepreneurs, reinvention, or the hidden treasures of ordinary life, Bruce brings the same point of view to everything he does: life is better when it is curious, generous, stylish, funny, and a little mischievous.
He divides his time between New York City and Edgewater Farm.
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A buoyant celebration of self-acceptance and joyful living; readers of all ages will linger over every dog-filled page. —Kirkus Reviews
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