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. 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). 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. After Bethany House remaindered ''Winter Birds'', Turner published her eighth novel, ''To See the Moon Again'', with mainstream

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, an imprint of Penguin Random House. Turner's novels were "loosely conceived as a series" and are all set in three fictional towns near Greenville in Upstate South Carolina.HQ Greenville website.
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1949 births Living people 21st-century American novelists American women novelists People from Mississippi People from South Carolina Writers from Greenville, South Carolina 21st-century American women writers 20th-century American novelists 20th-century American women writers Novelists from South Carolina {{US-novelist-1940s-stub