The Bridges of Madison County

About “The Bridges of Madison County”

The Bridges of Madison County is a 1992 romance novel by Robert James Waller. It follows an Italian-American woman living on a farm in 1960s Madison County, Iowa. When her husband and children leave for the State Fair, she begins an affair with a National Geographic photographer from Bellingham, Washington. He is in the area to photograph the covered bridges. The story is presented as a novelization of a true event, but it is entirely fictional. (Summary adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.)