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
  1. Turner's website
  2. http://www.jamielangstonturner.net/index.htm
  3. Christy Award winners, 2001-10 Archived 2012-01-24 at the Wayback Machine; Publisher's Weekly Best Books list
  4. Kelley Bruss, "Her New World," Greenville News, August 25, 2014, 1D.
  5. HQ Greenville website.


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