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Jenny Wingfield grew up “pretty much all over Louisiana”. The daughter of a Methodist minister, she learned early on that being a preacher’s kid could mean moving a lot.

After high school, she attended Southern State College (now SAU), in Magnolia, Arkansas, earning her B.A. in English. Later on, she taught English and Language Arts in the Hope, Arkansas and Ashdown Arkansas public schools.

Wingfield broke into freelancing by writing celebrity articles for Scene Magazine, Music City News, and The Saturday Evening Post. Several years later, she shifted lanes, tackling screenwriting. Her film credits include The Man In The Moon (Reese Witherspoon’s debut movie), The Outsider (starring Naomi Watts), and Hallmark Hall of Fame’s A Dog Named Chris...more


Average rating: 4.16 · 2,191 ratings · 624 reviews · 1 distinct work · Similar authors
The Homecoming of Samuel Lake
4.16 of 5 stars 4.16 avg rating — 2,183 ratings — published 2011 — 18 editions

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The Homecoming of Samuel Lake by Jenny Wingfield
" Samuel is a preacher who believes he has a purpose in the world, he just isn't sure what it is yet. Swan, his precocious eleven year old daughter believes in miracles and plans to get one sent her way. The Lake family just moved in with the Moses... " Read more of this review »
The Homecoming of Samuel Lake by Jenny Wingfield
" I'm not ready to leave, it can't be over ... this is hands down, without a doubt, my favourite read this year and I can't thank my friend Staci enough for recommending it. You know when you come across a treasure that is too good not to share, a b... " Read more of this review »
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Moses Never Closes was something folks counted on. It was a certain place in an uncertain world. Folks wanted it to stay the way it was, because once you change one part of a thing, all the other parts begin to shift, and pretty soon, you just don’t know what’s what anymore.Jenny Wingfield
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" This novel will have you thinking about faith and miracles in a whole different light. Debut novelist Jenny Wingfield conjures a cast of characters fresh and imaginative – all set against the lush backdrop of a rural Arkansas farming landscape in... " Read more of this review »
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“But leaving is just something that happens in life. We all do it someday, one way or another. There's worse things than going away with the taste of love still fresh in our mouths.”
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“And she knew Life well enough to know that if one person in a house gets really miserable for any length of time, the misery spreads like smallpox.”
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“September showed up right on schedule, and lasted a whole month.”
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“Moses Never Closes was something folks counted on. It was a certain place in an uncertain world. Folks wanted it to stay the way it was, because once you change one part of a thing, all the other parts begin to shift, and pretty soon, you just don’t know what’s what anymore.”
Jenny Wingfield, The Homecoming of Samuel Lake




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