Bruce Littlefield is an American author, businessman, actor, model, and TV contributor. He is the regarded as an American "lifestyle authority". He has been called a "Modern Day

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", a "Garage Sale Guru", the "Flea Market King" and is featured as a "design and lifestyle guru" on Howdini.com. He is the author of numerous books, including an Americana series with

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, ''Use What You've Got'' with

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, ''My Two Moms'' with

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, and ''The Sell'' with Fredrik Eklund. He appears on

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, having made notable TV lifestyle segments on ''

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'', ''

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'', and '' The View''. He has also

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and/or co-written several books.

Education and career

Littlefield was born in

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and graduated in 1985 from

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. He went to the University of South Carolina where he wrote for ''

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'' newspaper, and graduated in 1989 with a degree in broadcast journalism and membership in

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.) After graduation, Littlefield moved to

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and worked as a

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and an

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until being awarded scholarships by the Freedom Forum and

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to do graduate studies. He obtained his MA in journalism from

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's School of

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in 1995. Littlefield has appeared on ''

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'' and has been featured in ''

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'', the ''

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'', ''

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'', the ''

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'', ''

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'', ''

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'', the '' New York Daily News'', '' Miami Herald'', ''

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'', and the ''

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''. In 2002, with partner Scott Stewart, a senior vice president at the

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, he opened the Rosendale Cement Company restaurant in Rosendale, New York, and then in 2005 opened a second restaurant, The Alamo: Mexican Food Worth Fighting For. In 2010, Littlefield was a holiday

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for

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and

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Bibliography

* ''Airstream Living'' (2005) * ''Garage Sale America'' (2007) * ''Merry Christmas America'' (2007) * ''The Bedtime Book for Dogs'' (2011) * ''Moving In: Tales of an Unlicensed Marriage'' (2013)

Collaborations

* (with

) ''Use What You've Got and Other Business Lessons I Learned from My Mom'' (2003) * (with

) ''My Two Moms: Lessons of Love, Strength, and What Makes a Family with Zach Wahls'' (2012) * (with

Lis Wiehl Lis Wiehl (born August 19, 1961) is a ''New York Times'' bestselling American author of fiction and nonfiction books, and a legal analyst. She is the author of twenty books, including, most recently, ''A Spy in Plain Sight: The Inside Story of th ...

) ''Lis Wiehl's Truth Advantage: The 7 Keys to a Happy and Fulfilling Life'' (2012) * (with Fredrik Eklund) ''The Sell: The Secrets of Selling Anything to Anyone''

References

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