Kaye Gibbons

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born

January 01, 1960 in North Carolina, The United States

gender

female

website

http://www.harcourtbooks.com/EllenFoster/A_Lett...

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Literature & Fiction

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Kaye Gibbons was born in 1960 in Nash County, North Carolina, on Bend of the River Road. She attended North Carolina State University and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, studying American and English literature. At twenty-six years old, she 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."

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Average rating: 3.64 · 23,993 ratings · 1,887 reviews · 15 distinct works

	Ellen Foster 3.63 avg rating — 9,074 ratings — published 1987 — 31 editions	My rating:
	A Virtuous Woman 3.55 avg rating — 6,642 ratings — published 1989 — 20 editions	My rating:
	Charms for the Easy Life 3.97 avg rating — 4,007 ratings — published 1993 — 18 editions	My rating:
	On the Occasion of My Last Afternoon 3.66 avg rating — 1,110 ratings — published 1998 — 9 editions	My rating:
	Sights Unseen 3.62 avg rating — 728 ratings — published 1995 — 15 editions	My rating:
	A Cure for Dreams 3.68 avg rating — 736 ratings — published 1991 — 4 editions	My rating:
	The Life All Around Me By Ellen Foster 3.05 avg rating — 775 ratings — published 2005 — 14 editions	My rating:
	Divining Women 3.50 avg rating — 589 ratings — published 1997 — 15 editions	My rating:
	The Lunatics Ball 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2011	My rating:
	Une Sage Femme: Roman 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 1994	My rating:

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Quotes by Kaye Gibbons

“It took me a long time to learn that mistakes aren't good or bad,
they're just mistakes, and you clean them up and go on.”
― Kaye Gibbons, A Virtuous Woman

25 people liked it

“I might be confused sometimes in my head but it is not something you need to talk about. Before you can talk you have to line it all up in order and I had rather just let it swirl around until I am too tired to think. You just let the motion in your head wear you out. Never think about it. You just make a bigger mess that way.”
― Kaye Gibbons, Ellen Foster

tags: never-think , swirl , tired

14 people liked it

“Have you ever felt like you could cry because you know you just heard the most important thing anybody in the world could have spoke at that second?”
― Kaye Gibbons, Ellen Foster

tags: important

10 people liked it

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