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Novelist Jan Karon is known for her 15-volume Mitford Years series, which have sold tens of millions of copies. Yet, five years ago, she told the New York Times she had lost her "reason to live."
Karon is now 89 years old. The "reason to live" she spoke of was her daughter, Candace, who died of pancreatic cancer in 2021 at the age of 68. This was not the first time Karon had suffered great loss. As a three-year-old, Karon's parents divorced and she was sent to live with her maternal grandparents. When she was 14, Karon dropped out of school to get married. She and her husband divorced by the time she was 18, marking the first of three marriages that would end in such a way. |
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In 1980, at the age of 42, Karon lost her job as a TV producer. It was then that she asked God to be with her.
"Little by little," Karon told CT, "she learned that God loved her—and even more slowly, that God also forgave her."
Karon wrote her first book at the age of 57. Through her work, which she says is decidedly written for secular audiences, Karon has been a witness of God's forgiveness, love, and faithfulness to millions of people. She does not hide from her story. Instead, she lets the way God's love found her infuse her stories—from tales of romantic love, to small-town living, to interracial family dynamics. |
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"This is life," Karon told CT, "and it taught me how to write books." |
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