Jan Karon

Jan Karon is an American novelist who writes for both adults and young readers. She is the author of the New York Timesbestselling Mitford novels, featuring Father Timothy Kavanagh, an Episcopal priest, and the fictional village of Mitford. Her most recent Mitford novel, Come Rain or Come Shine, debuted aton the New York Times Bestseller List. She has been designated a lay Canon for the Arts in the Episcopal Diocese of Quincy by the Rt. Rev. Keith L. Ackerman, SSC., and in 2015, she was awarded the Library of Virginias Literary Lifetime Achievement Award. Her original papersto date are archived in Special Collections at the University of Virginias Alderman Library.

Karon was born in 1937 in the Blue Ridge foothills town of Lenoir, North Carolina as Janice Meredith Wilson. Fittingly, she was named Janice Meredith Wilson, after the novel Janice Meredith. Before Karon was 4, her parents split up and left her with her maternal grandparents on a farm a few miles from Lenoir. Her mother Wanda at Karons birth went to Charlotte. Her father, Robert Wilson, joined the Royal Canadian Air Force.

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