[2][3] She graduated from Blue Mountain College in 1938 with a bachelor of arts degree and a diploma in piano performance.

[9] Jenkins was named head of the English department at Belhaven College in 1959.

[10] She wrote several books, including I'll Tell You What: The Life of Elizabeth Inchbald (2003),[11][12] Nicholas Rowe (1977),[13] and Paradise Garden: A Trip Through Howard Finster's Visionary World (1996, with her nephew Robert Peacock).

[14] Annibel Jenkins died in 2013, aged 95 years, in Atlanta.

[15] Notable winners have included Richard Wendorf (1997), Nicholas Boyle (2002), George M. Marsden (2004), Allan Greer (2006), Douglas Smith (2010), and Jane Kamensky (2017).