Joyce Blackburn

JOYCE KNIGHT BLACKBURN was an American author and broadcaster who wrote fourteen books, including biographies of James Edward Oglethorpe, Theodore Roosevelt, Martha Berry, George Wythe, and John Adams, as well as the Suki series of children’s fiction.

Blackburn received Georgia literary awards including Fiction Author of the Year for 1970. A graduate of Moody Bible Institute, she worked for over two decades at Moody’s radio station WMBI. Her papers are archived at Emory University.

Joyce lived on St. Simons Island, Georgia.

Joyce Blackburn’s books are published by Turner Publishing.

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