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Kaye Gibbons, the author
of a book now considered a “literary standard,” Ellen
Foster, will speak at Dalton State College as part of
its Fine Arts and Lecture Series events on Thursday,
September 27, at 7:30 pm.
Gibbons, who wrote her first novel in 1987 at the age of
26 and has since authored around a dozen books, will
speak in the Goodroe Auditorium in Memorial Hall. The
event is free and open to the public.
“Kaye Gibbons is not only a supremely talented
award-winning author, but she is also, from all
accounts, a most engaging speaker,” says Jane Taylor,
Director of Public Relations at Dalton State.
“In 2001, she spoke at the Pompidou Center in Paris in
what one journalist called ‘an act of sustained
brilliance.’”
A native of North Carolina, Gibbons attended the
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, studying
American and English literature. She began her writing
career in the 1980s, during which time she produced
Ellen Foster, the coming-of-age story of a young girl
who triumphs over the challenging circumstances of her
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In 1989, her second
novel was published and quickly became a bestseller. A Virtuous
Woman was touted by the San Francisco Chronicle as being “a small
masterpiece that explores the depth and breadth of love with
compassion and without sentimentality. We are left both stunned and
wiser.”
She also authored A Cure for Dreams, published in 1991 and winner of
the PEN/Revson Award for the best work of fiction by an American
writer under the age of 35 and the Heartland Prize for fiction from
the Chicago Tribune.
When Charms for the Easy Life was published in 1993, it became a New
York Times bestseller. Sights Unseen, published in 1995, won the
Critics Choice Award from the Los Angeles Times. The following year,
Gibbons was the youngest writer ever to receive the Chevalier de
L’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres, a French knighthood recognizing her
contribution to French literature.
Gibbons, a member of the Fellowship of Southern Writers, is a
regular contributor to the New York Times Book Review and has read
and lectured to sold-out audiences from New York City to Seattle.
She is currently working on a number of journalistic pieces and a
new book, due out next year.
For more information about the event, please call 706-272-4469.
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