Kaye Gibbons author biography, plus links to books by Kaye Gibbons.

Kaye Gibbons

Kaye Gibbons is a North Carolina writer who has risen out of poverty and difficult circumstances to produce a series of successful novels. Kaye Gibbons was born Bertha Kaye Batts in Nash county, N.C. on May 5, 1960. She had a poor and troubled childhood from which she has drawn liberally to create her novels. She grew up in a tin-roofed house with an alcoholic father and no electricity or running water.

Gibbons is the author of Ellen Foster, A Virtuous Woman, A Cure for Dreams, Charms for the Easy Life, and Sights Unseen.

Kaye Gibbons receiving the North Carolina Award for Literature in 1998. She lives with her family in Rocky Mount, North Carolina.

This biography was last updated on 12/27/2005.

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