Anne Butler has led a life of diversity, with interests ranging from
criminology to cooking, homes located from the East to the West Coast, and jobs
ranging from plantation owner to writer. A native of New Orleans, Butler
received her bachelor's degree from Sweet Briar College in Virginia and
graduated from Humboldt State in California with a master's degree in English.
Having worked as a journalist, writer, and editor, she has written articles for
many publications, including the Los Angeles Times, Country Woman,
New Orleans Magazine, and Country Roads. She has also written a
number of fiction and nonfiction books based on her numerous interests and
lifestyles.
Wishing to share the history of Louisiana and of her own family, Butler operates
a bed and breakfast on the Butler Greenwood Plantation, which dates to the
1790s. She claims to now know “just about everything there is to know about the
area” and is spreading her knowledge farther through her award-winning
children's books, travel books, and cookbooks. Her first cookbook, Audubon
Plantation Country Cookbook, named Best New Cookbook of the Year by
Louisiana Life magazine, includes history, humor, people, places, vintage
photographs, and, of course, delicious recipes to create a wonderful view of
life in Audubon plantation country. Butler's companion piece, Bayou
Plantation Country Cookbook, offers the same wonderful mix of
ingredients for the Louisiana bayou area. Louisiana Life describes her
work as “an illustrated gastronomic tour of this area's society, culture, and
economics . . . a veritable social history in the guise of a cookbook.”
Butler frequently speaks at a number of venues, including schools, churches,
book clubs, and civic meetings, to discuss topics such as writing, running a bed
and breakfast, historic preservation, and crime. She conducts historic tours
combined with book reviews in her home and writing studio. A member of many
organizations, such as the Louisiana B&B Association and the West Feliciana
Historical Society, Butler has appeared on a number of television news and talk
shows, including Court TV with Catherine Crier and the Sally Jesse
Raphael Show. She lives in St. Francisville, Louisiana, and has two
children, Chase and Stewart.
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