Donna Everhart

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Donna Everhart is a USA Today bestselling author known for vividly evoking challenges of the heart and the complex heritage of the American South in her acclaimed novels Women of a Promiscuous Nature, When the Jessamine Grows, The Saints of Swallow Hill, The Moonshiner’s Daughter, The Forgiving Kind, The Road to Bittersweet, and The Education of Dixie Dupree. A finalist for the Southern Book Prize, she is the recipient of the prestigious North Carolina Society of Historians Award of Excellence, the SELA Outstanding Southeastern Author Award from the Southeastern Library Association, the Lucy Bramlette Patterson Award in Creative Writing from the General Federation of Women's Clubs of North Carolina, and her novels have received a SIBA Okra Pick, two Indie Next Picks, and three Publishers Marketplace Buzz Books selections. Born and raised in Raleigh, she now lives just an hour away in Dunn, North Carolina.

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Book cover for 'When the Jessamine Grows' by Donna Everhart, featuring a rural landscape with yellow flowers, a wooden fence, and an old wooden house in the background, set in warm, earthy tones.
Cover of the book "Women of a Promiscuous Nature" by Donna Everhart featuring a woman's face partially obscured by flowers and leaves.
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