![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() This fascinating early response to the Father Tim stories shows that from the very start, Karon succeeded at inventing a place readers wanted to inhabit. Karon’s early files on the first novel show us that as she worked on the first Mitford novel, external feedback was valuable and productive. Built mostly by Karon, with several contributions by others, Mitford has spread to a cookbook, bedside reader, quotation collections, a devotional manual, a play and television film, and even The Mitford Museum. Drawing from the practical and creative wells cultivated in her advertising work, as well as from her experiences of growing up in and returning to the South, Karon began building Mitford from the earliest stories forward, resulting in a world that extends today well beyond the novels. ![]() After leaving her job in advertising in the late 1980s to pursue a career as an author, Karon struggled to realize a story that would communicate her view of the world to her audience until, one night, a vision of an Episcopal priest and his homely town unfolded in her mind, and Father Tim Kavanagh and Mitford materialized.įrom Middle Earth to Hogwarts, the world that an author creates is a vital element of popular genre fiction, but Karon’s Mitford proves that effective “worldbuilding” does not require magic and monsters to inspire the loyalty of readers. The story goes that Mitford came to Jan Karon in a dream. ![]()
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