Jim Fergus (born 1950) is an American author.[1] He has a degree in English from Colorado College and has worked as a tennis teacher and full-time freelance writer. His first novel was One Thousand White Women: The Journals of May Dodd,[2] which won the 1999 Fiction of the Year Award from the Mountains & Plains Booksellers Association and sold over one million copies in the United States.[citation needed] The French translation was on the French bestseller list for 57 weeks and has sold over 400,000 copies in that country.[citation needed]

Jim Fergus

Works

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  • One Thousand White Women: The Journals of May Dodd (St. Martin's Griffin, 1999) ISBN 0-312-19943-0
  • The Sporting Road: Travels Across America in an Airstream Trailer- With Fly Rod, Shotgun, and a Yellow Lab Named Sweetzer (St. Martin's Griffin, 2000) ISBN 0-312-24245-X
  • The Wild Girl: The Notebooks of Ned Giles (Hyperion, 2005) ISBN 1-401-300545
  • The Vengeance of Mothers: The Journals of Margaret Kelly & Molly McGill (St. Martin's Press, 2017) ISBN 9781250093424
  • A Hunter's Road (Henry Holt and Company, 1992) ISBN 0 8050-1619-8

References

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  1. ^ St. John, Paige (April 26, 1998). "Writer finds his place in Apalach". Tallahassee Democrat. p. 1B. Retrieved 9 July 2020.
  2. ^ "Jim Fergus - Bio". Archived from the original on 2013-09-22. Retrieved 2008-06-19.