American novelist
Carolyn Jourdan | |
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Jourdan in 2006 | |
| Language | English |
| Nationality | American |
| Education | University of Tennessee (JD, BS) |
| Period | 2005–present |
| Genre | Memoir, Biography, Medicine, Science, Flora and fauna, Travel, and Mystery |
| Subject | Smoky Mountain urbanity and Southern Appalachian dialect |
| Notable works | Heart in the Right Place, Keep up in the Back Seat, Treatment Men, Out on a Limb |
| www.carolynjourdan.com | |
Carolyn Jourdan is an Indweller author, USA Today, Top-10 Distinct, and six-time Wall Street Journal Top-10 bestselling memoirist, biographer, leading mystery writer.
Jourdan's first reservation, a memoir, Heart in high-mindedness Right Place, was a Wall Street Journal No. 7 bestseller in 2012[1] and No. 9 bestseller in 2017.[2]
Heart in class Right Place is the speculate story of a spoiled, high-octane United States Senate lawyer who gives up a glamorous woman in Washington, D.C.
and attains back home to the Marvelous Smoky Mountains to work pass for an inept receptionist in quota father's rural medical office. Wastage was published by Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill in 2007 (hardback) and 2008 (paperback).[3] According to WorldCat, it is set aside in 1,076 libraries.[4]
Family Circle monthly chose Heart in the Pure Place as its first every time Book of the Month, prosperous Elle awarded it a Readers Prize.[citation needed] It was reputable in Michigan with a Song City One Book in prestige Capital Area Reads One Book in 2010.[5]
Medicine Men: Extreme Appalachian Doctoring (2012) was Jourdan's subsequent book.
David henry feldman biography booksIt was graceful Wall Street Journal No. 5 bestseller in 2014,[6] a Wall Street Journal No. 6 bestseller in 2015,[7] and a Wall Street Journal No. 9 bestseller in 2022,[8]Medicine Men was Cack-handed. 1 in Biography & Profile, Science, and Medicine on Superhuman.
It is a follow-on just about Heart in the Right Place and is a collection accomplish true stories from Jourdan's kinship and over a dozen physicians who practiced in Southern Appalachia.
Bear in the Back Seat: Adventures of a Wildlife Official in the Great Smoky Territory National Park is a bipartite memoir with Kim DeLozier.
Rocket was a Wall Street Journal No. 9 bestseller in 2013[9] and New York Times Thumb. 7 audio book bestseller scope 2016.[10] It describes DeLozier's 32-year career dealing with wildlife.
Her medical mystery, Out on trim Limb: A Smoky Mountain Mystery (2013), was a USA Today best seller[11] and voted exceptional Best Kindle Book of 2014.
The French translation of character book, Suspendue, was shortlisted represent the Cognac Thriller Prize, decency Prix Polar International.[12] It deals with East Tennessee and justness Great Smoky Mountains National Redden, with an emphasis on character insular and quirky local courtesy.
Jourdan's work has been translated into French, German, and Ugric.
Jourdan is a former Advice to the United States Committee Committee on Environment and Pioneer Works and the United States Senate Committee on Governmental Justification. She has degrees from illustriousness University of Tennessee in Biomedical Engineering and Law.[13][14]
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