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American novelist

Carolyn Jourdan
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Language	English
Nationality	American
Education	University of Tennessee (JD, BS)
Period	–present
Genre	Memoir, Biography, Medicine, Science, Wildlife, Travel, and Mystery
Subject	Smoky Mountain culture and Southern Appalachian dialect
Notable works	Heart in the Right Place, Bear in the Back Seat, Medicine Men, Out on a Limb

Carolyn Jourdan is an American author, USA Today, Top Audible, and six-time Wall Street Journal Top bestselling memoirist, biographer, and mystery writer.

Biography

Jourdan's first book, a memoir, Heart in the Right Place, was a Wall Street Journal No. 7 bestseller in ^[1] and No. 9 bestseller in ^[2]

Heart in the Right Place is the true story of a spoiled, high-powered United States Senate lawyer who gives up a glamorous life in Washington, D.C.

and comes back home to the Great Smoky Mountains to work as an inept receptionist in her father's rural medical office.

Carolyn jorudan autobiography featuring robert Heart in the Right Place, an alternately laugh-out-loud-funny and cry-your-eyes-out-serious memoir about the down-sizing of Carolyn Jourdan's life from white marble columns, gilded domes, and Neiman Marcus to naugahyde, peeling linoleum, and Wal-mart. Carolyn Jourdan had it all: the Mercedes Benz, the fancy soirees, the best clothes.

It was published by Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill in (hardback) and (paperback).^[3] According to WorldCat, it is held in 1, libraries.^[4]

Family Circle magazine chose Heart in the Right Place as its first ever Book of the Month, and Elle awarded it a Readers Prize.^{[citation needed]} It was honored in Michigan with a One City One Book in the Capital Area Reads One Book in ^[5]

Medicine Men: Extreme Appalachian Doctoring () was Jourdan's second book.

It was a Wall Street Journal No. 5 bestseller in ,^[6] a Wall Street Journal No. 6 bestseller in ,^[7] and a Wall Street Journal No. 9 bestseller in ,^[8]Medicine Men was No. 1 in Biography & Memoir, Science, and Medicine on Amazon.

It is a follow-on to Heart in the Right Place and is a collection of true stories from Jourdan's family and over a dozen physicians who practiced in Southern Appalachia.

Bear in the Back Seat: Adventures of a Wildlife Ranger in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park is a two-part memoir with Kim DeLozier. It was a Wall Street Journal No.

9 bestseller in ^[9] and New York Times No. 7 audio book bestseller in ^[10] It describes DeLozier's year career dealing with wildlife.

Her medical mystery, Out on a Limb: A Smoky Mountain Mystery (), was a USA Today best seller^[11] and voted a Best Kindle Book of The French translation of the book, Suspendue, was shortlisted for the Cognac Thriller Prize, the Prix Polar International.^[12] It deals with East Tennessee and the Great Smoky Mountains National Park, with an emphasis on the insular and quirky local culture.

Jourdan's work has been translated into French, German, and Hungarian.

Carolyn jorudan autobiography featuring Jourdan's first book, a memoir, Heart in the Right Place, was a Wall Street Journal No. 7 bestseller in [1] and No. 9 bestseller in [2]Heart in the Right Place is the true story of a spoiled, high-powered United States Senate lawyer who gives up a glamorous life in Washington, D.C. and comes back home to the Great Smoky Mountains to work as an inept receptionist in her father's.

Jourdan is a former Counsel to the United States Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works and the United States Senate Committee on Governmental Affairs. She has degrees from the University of Tennessee in Biomedical Engineering and Law.^[13][14]

Bibliography

Nonfiction

Medical

Wildlife

• Bear in the Back Seat I: Adventures of a Wildlife Ranger in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park () ISBN&#;
• Bear in the Back Seat II: Adventures of a Wildlife Ranger in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park () ISBN&#;
• Bear Bloopers: True Stories from the Great Smoky Mountains National Park () ISBN&#;
• Waltzing with Wildlife: 10 Things NOT to Do in Our National Parks ( ebook) ISBN&#;
• Dangerous Beauty: Stories from the Wilds of Yellowstone () ISBN&#;

Writing

• How to Write, Edit & Publish Your Memoir: Advice From a Best-Selling Memoirist () ISBN&#;

Fiction

Mystery

References

• "Carolyn Jourdan" in Contemporary authors.&#;: Volume a bio-bibliographical guide to current writers in fiction, general nonfiction, poetry, journalism, drama, motion pictures, television, and other fields Gale,

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