Jim Fergus

Jim Fergus (born 1950) is an American author.^[1] He has a degree in English from Colorado College and has worked as a tennis teacher and full-time freelance writer. His first novel was One Thousand White Women: The Journals of May Dodd,^[2] which won the 1999 Fiction of the Year Award from the Mountains & Plains Booksellers Association and sold over one million copies in the United States.^{[citation needed]} The French translation was on the French bestseller list for 57 weeks and has sold over 400,000 copies in that country.^{[citation needed]}