Buzzy Jackson is the award-winning author of three books of nonfiction as well as the novel TO DIE BEAUTIFUL (Dutton, May 2023). A recent fellow of the Edith Wharton Writing Residency, she has a Ph.D. in History from UC Berkeley and is a member of the National Book Critics’ Circle.
Buzzy Jackson grew up in the mountains (Truckee CA and Montana), lived all over the place (Iowa City, Perth Australia, Los Angeles, Barcelona, NYC, Berkeley, Cambridge MA, San Francisco, Oakland, Cape Town South Africa), and then moved back to the mountains again (Colorado), where she lives with her family and Ralph (a dog). She is the proud daughter of Motor City legend Ruth J. Hall and beloved mystery writer Jon A. Jackson.
To Die Beautiful is Buzzy’s debut novel and fourth book. She has a Ph.D. in History from UC Berkeley and is a member of the National Book Critics’ Circle. She is currently working on a new novel based on a historical American true crime.
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