Carolyn Jourdan is an American author, USA Today, Top-10 Audible, and six-time Wall Street Journal Top-10 bestselling memoirist, biographer, and mystery writer.

[2] Heart in the Right Place is the true story of a spoiled, high-powered United States Senate lawyer who gives up a glamorous life in Washington, D.C. and comes back home to the Great Smoky Mountains to work as an inept receptionist in her father's rural medical office.

It is a follow-on to Heart in the Right Place and is a collection of true stories from Jourdan's family and over a dozen physicians who practiced in Southern Appalachia.

Bear in the Back Seat: Adventures of a Wildlife Ranger in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park is a two-part memoir with Kim DeLozier.

[12] It deals with East Tennessee and the Great Smoky Mountains National Park, with an emphasis on the insular and quirky local culture.