Sarah Loudin Thomas grew up on a 100-acre farm in French Creek, WV, the seventh generation to live there. Her historical fiction is often set in West Virginia and celebrates the people, the land, and the heritage of Appalachia. Sarah is the director of Jan Karon’s Mitford Museum in Hudson, NC. She holds a bachelor’s degree in English from Coastal Carolina University and is the author of the acclaimed novels The Right Kind of Fool–winner of the 2021 Selah Book of the Year–and Miracle in a Dry Season–winner of the 2015 Inspy Award. Sarah has also been a finalist for the Christy Award, ACFW Carol Award and the Christian Book of the Year Award. She and her husband live in western North Carolina.
Series
Books
These Blue Mountains
A Southern Fiction Novel with a Pianist Heroine for Book Clubs set between WWI and WWII in 1930s Appalachia and Germany
2025
Miracle in a Dry Season
2014
Appalachian serenade
2014
A Tapestry of Secrets
2016
The Finder of Forgotten Things
2021
Until the Harvest
2015
A Shot at Love
2019
The Sound of Rain
2017
These Tangled Threads
A Novel of Biltmore
2024
When Silence Sings
2019
The Right Kind of Fool
2020
