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    Jan Karon


    Born

    in Lenoir, North Carolina, The United States

    January 01, 1937


    Website

    http://www.mitfordbooks.com/


    Genre

    Contemporary, Christian Fiction, Domestic Fiction


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    Born Janice Meredith Wilson in 1937, Jan Karon was raised on a farm near Lenoir, North Carolina. Karon knew at a very early age that she wanted to be a writer. She penned her first novel when she was 10 years old, the same year she won a short-story contest organized by the local high school. Karon married as a teenager and had a daughter, Candace.

    At 18, Karon began working as a receptionist for a Charlotte, N.C. advertising agency. She advanced in the company after leaving samples of her writing on the desk of her boss, who eventually noticed her talent. Karon went on to have a highly successful career in the field, winning awards for ad agencies from Charlotte to San Francisco. In time, she became a creative vice president at the high-prBorn Janice Meredith Wilson in 1937, Jan Karon w

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      The reporter Jan Aleksander Karon

      Jan Karon comes from a very political family. Conversation flowed freely at home: about Stalin and communism, the Holocaust and Willy Brandt’s kneeling in Warsaw, the Polish People’s Republic, Lech Wałęsa and the freedoms of the EU. There was talk about Radio Free Europe and laughter at Radio Yerevan jokes. Above all, the discussions centred on the irony of the family ending up in Germany, the country of the perpetrators, to which Karon’s father had emigrated in 1984 and his mother in 1988, away from a state socialism that was increasingly perceived as oppressive. Both ambitious individuals, neither of them could imagine a future for themselves in their Polish homeland, especially after the ‘stan wojenny’ was imposed, the Polish martial lag that de-legitimised Solidarność from 1981. A career in Poland was out of the question at the time.

      This was not to säga that the new uppstart in market-oriented West Germany was easy for Mr and Mrs Kar