The first time she returned home to the rolling foothills of western North Carolina in the late ‘80s, author Jan Karon, then 48, was inspired to create stories about a small town and the everyday ...

For one weekend only, hundreds of devoted readers gathered in Hudson, North Carolina, to celebrate Mitford, a fictional place with a real sense of community. Jan Karon, the 88-year-old author behind ...

1. Perhaps the best of the books on the Mitfords was stitched together by Harold Acton, who had the happy advantage of being a contemporary of Nancy Mitford (1904-1973). Not only did Acton know the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Novelist Jan Karon has written 25 bestsellers, including 15 about a make-believe mountain village, Mitford – stories in which the ...

This bestselling New York Times bestselling author is known worldwide for her Mitford series of 14 books--Mitford is the name of the fictional North Carolina town in her novels. Now in her 80s, Jan ...

In their time, the daughters of the second Baron Redesdale, better known as the Mitford sisters, were an industry. Their trade, for the most part, was their mere existence — swanning about British ...

Michelle Gable’s “The Bookseller’s Secret” is her new novel about author Nancy Mitford, whom she greatly admires. “I’ve been a longtime Nancy Mitford fan but became obsessed with the entire Mitford ...

"Muv" by Rachel Trethewey is a welcome corrective to the blame-mom-for-everything syndrome it would be easy to fall into with ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. For one weekend only, hundreds of devoted readers gathered in Hudson, North Carolina, to celebrate Mitford, a fictional place with ...