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Welcome.
I'm Joyce Burton Crawford
Award-winning Author
of
Christian Historical Fiction
Joyce Burton Crawford writes spiritually rich historical fiction that blends frontier Americana with lyrical prose, deep emotional truth, and reverent portrayals of land, family, and faith. Her stories explore the sacredness of memory, the resilience of the human spirit, and the quiet ways God moves through grief, love, and generational legacy. With sensory‑immersive landscapes and characters shaped by both tenderness and trial, her novels invite readers into a world where history breathes, hearts heal, and the divine whispers through every leaf and river.
Joyce Burton Crawford
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Joyce Crawford's Author Comps
Classic Author Comps
Willa Cathe
James Fenimore Cooper
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Laura Ingalls Wilder
Lew Wallace (Ben-Hur)
Contemporary Author Comps
Kent Haruf
Charles Frazier
Marilynne Robinson
Paulette Jiles
William Kent Krueger
Joyce Crawford holds a unique position as a Comp Author. She sits at a rare crossroads with Cather’s reverence for land, Robinson’s spiritual depth, Frazier’s lyrical historical detail, Jiles’s frontier authenticity, and Krueger’s emotional resonance.
But Joyce also brings something distinctly her own: A mythic, sacred tenderness.
Her writing treats memory, land, and love as holy things - A painterly, intimate sensory palette.
Joyce writes landscapes the way some people write prayers, a moral clarity without harshness.
Her stories are full of compassion, even in suffering, a voice shaped by faith, grief, and generational continuity.
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