Kaye Gibbons Biography

At twenty-six years old Kaye Gibbons wrote her first novel Ellen Foster. Praised as an extraordinary debut Eudora Welty said that the honesty of thought and eye and feeling and word mark the work of this talented writer and Walker Percy said Ellen Foster is a Southern Holden Caulfield tougher perhaps as funny . . . a breathtaking first novel.
Ellen Foster was recently honored in London as one of the Twenty Greatest Novels of the Twentieth Century. In 1997 the novel won 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 the Louis D. Rubin Writing Award and other major awards. Now a classic it is taught in high schools and universities often teamed with The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Catcher in the Rye and To Kill a Mockingbird. The book has been widely translated frequently performed in theatres throughout the United States and was produced by Hallmark Hall of Fame for CBS starring Emily Harris and Jenna Malone.
Published in 1989 A Virtuous Woman also received wide praise in the United States and abroad. The San Francisco Chronicle called the work a perfect gem of a novel. Both Ellen Foster and A Virtuous Woman were chosen together as Oprah Book Club selections in 1998 leading the New York Times bestseller list for many weeks.

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