![]() In time, she became a creative vice president at the high-profile McKinney & Silver, in Raleigh. Karon went on to have a highly successful career in the field, winning awards for ad agencies from Charlotte to San Francisco. She advanced in the company after leaving samples of her writing on the desk of her boss, who eventually noticed her talent. Karon married as a teenager and had a daughter, Candace.Īt 18, Karon began working as a receptionist for a Charlotte, N.C. 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 knew at a very early age that she wanted to be a writer. ![]() ![]() Born Janice Meredith Wilson in 1937, Jan Karon was raised on a farm near Lenoir, North Carolina. ![]()
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