Jim Fergus
American writer
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| Intro | American writer | |
| Places | United States of America | |
| is | Writer | |
| Work field | Literature | |
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| Birth | 23 March 1950, Chicago, Cook County, Illinois, U.S.A. | |
| Age | 74 years |
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Jim Fergus (born 1950) is an American author. 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, which won the 1999 Fiction of the Year Award from the Mountains & Plains Booksellers Association and sold over 250,000 copies in the United States. The French translation was on the French bestseller list for 57 weeks and has sold over 400,000 copies in that country.