![]() Several books in the series have won God Medallion Awards, and her last five books have all landed on the New York Times bestseller list. Karon’s fiction is best known for its small-town charm and its lack of profanity, violence, and sex. Since that time fans have grown to love her Mitford series, a collection of nine novels about Episcopal priest Father Tim Cavanaugh and his life in the small town of Mitford, North Carolina. After two years of struggling to find a suitable idea for a novel, and two more years of rejections from publishers, Karon’s first book, At Home in Mitford, was published in 1996. Although her writing career initially took her into the field of advertising, and one of her print advertising campaigns won a prestigious award, her true dream was to become a novelist.Īt age 50, after feeling that the Lord had showed her it was time to finally pursue that dream, she left her lucrative advertising career and began writing fiction. Karon wrote her first novel at the age of 10. This is the joy that radiates from bestselling author Jan Karon. ![]() CBN.comThere is a peace and a joy that comes when one knows they are doing what God created them to do. ![]()
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