Kaye Gibbons
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| Born: | 1960 Nash County, North Carolina |
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| Occupation: | Novelist |
| Nationality: | United States |
| Genres: | Southern literature |
| Subjects: | Women |
| Website: | kayegibbons.com |
Kaye Gibbons (born 1960) is an American novelist. Her 1987 debut, Ellen Foster, received the Sue Kaufman Prize for First Fiction from the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, a Special Citation from the Ernest Hemingway Foundation, and the The Louis D. Rubin, Jr. Prize in Creative Writing from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Gibbons is a member of the Fellowship of Southern Writers, and two of her books, Ellen Foster and A Virtuous Woman, were selected for Oprah's Book Club in 1998.
Gibbons suffers from bipolar disorder and says she is extremely creative during her manic phases. Ellen Foster was written during one such phase.
Gibbons was born in Nash County, North Carolina and went to Rocky Mount Senior High School. She attended North Carolina State University and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, studying American and English literature. Gibbons divides her time between Raleigh, North Carolina, and Syracuse, New York, and has three daughters.
[edit] Works
- Ellen Foster (1987)
- A Virtuous Woman (1989)
- A Cure for Dreams (1991)
- Charms for the Easy Life (1993)
- Sights Unseen (1995)
- On the Occasion of My Last Afternoon (1998)
- Divining Women (2004)
- The Life All Around Me by Ellen Foster (2006)
[edit] External links
- Kaye Gibbons' website
- Interview with Kaye Gibbons at Womankind Education & Resource Center
- Article about Gibbons at Syracuse Online
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