Jamie Langston Turner
Jamie Langston Turner (born 1949) is a Christian novelist.
Biography
Jamie Turner was born in Mississippi and taught writing and poetry at Bob Jones University.[1] She has written eight novels: Suncatchers (1995), Some Wildflower in My Heart (1998), By the Light of a Thousand Stars (1999), A Garden to Keep (2001), No Dark Valley (2004), Winter Birds (2006), Sometimes a Light Surprises (2009), and To See the Moon Again (2014).[2]
Her novel A Garden to Keep won a 2002 Christy Award; her Winter Birds was named one of the "one hundred best books" of 2006 by Publishers Weekly and also won a Christy Award.[3] After Bethany House remaindered Winter Birds, Turner published her eighth novel, To See the Moon Again, with mainstream Berkley Books, an imprint of Penguin Random House.[4] Turner's novels were "loosely conceived as a series" and are all set in three fictional towns near Greenville in Upstate South Carolina.[5]
References
- ^ Turner's website
- ^ http://www.jamielangstonturner.net/index.htm
- ^ Christy Award winners, 2001-10 Archived 2012-01-24 at the Wayback Machine; Publisher's Weekly Best Books list
- ^ Kelley Bruss, "Her New World," Greenville News, August 25, 2014, 1D.
- ^ HQ Greenville website.
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