Carolyn Jessop

About the Author

Carolyn Jessop is an American author and famously an ex-member of the FLDS church. The author was born to a polygamous family that was part of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of the Latter-Day Saints. Growing up, she witnessed her father take the polygamy path when he got married to her cousin on her mother’s side. She was brought up with emotionally distant parents and remembers that her father was a domineering man. Aged seventeen, she graduated from high school and was intent on heading to college to study pediatric medicine but that was not to be. Instead, she found herself forced to marry a man named Merill Jessop just a year later. At the time, Carolyn Jessop was getting married to Merrill Jessop a fifty-year-old man. She would experience physical and emotional abuse in her. Carolyn Jessop is the author of over 0 books across 0 series. With such a prolific career, Carolyn Jessop has established themselves as one of the most influential authors in contemporary fiction.