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Jim Fergus was born in Chicago but attended high school in Massachusetts and graduated as an English major from Colorado College in 1971. He has traveled extensively, worked as a teaching tennis professional in Colorado and Florida, and in 1980 moved to the tiny town of Rand, Colorado, to begin his career as a full-time freelance writer. His articles, essays, interviews, and profiles have appeared in a wide variety of national magazines and newspapers. Fergus’ first novel, One Thousand White Women: The Journals of May Dodd won the 1999 Fiction of the Year Award from the Mountains & Plains Booksellers Association and has become a favorite selection of reading groups across the country. It has since sold over 250,000 copies in the United States. An international bestseller, One Thousand White Women was also on the French bestseller list for fifty-seven weeks and has sold well over 400,000 copies in that country.