The Bridges of Madison County is a 1992 best-selling novel by Robert James Waller which tells the story of a married but lonely Italian woman , living in 1960s Madison County , Iowa , who engages in an affair with a National Geographic photographer from Bellingham , Washington who is visiting Madison County in order to create a photographic essay on the covered bridges in the area .
The Bridges of Madison County is a 1992 book written by American author Robert James Waller .