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About Kaye Gibbons

Kaye Gibbons (born May 5, 1960) is an American novelist. Her first novel, Ellen Foster (1987), 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 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 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. She has three daughters.

Gibbons has bipolar disorder and notes that she is extremely creative during her manic phases, in which she believes that everything is instrumented by a "real magic". Ellen Foster was written during one such phase.

Kaye Gibbons writes about Fiction, North carolina, fiction, North Carolina, Large type books, Women, and Fiction, general. Their best-known work is Ellen Foster.

On FindMyTBR we track 8 books by Kaye Gibbons, 8 of them confirmed as audiobooks on Spotify or Apple Books — including A Virtuous Woman (Abridged), Charms for the Easy Life, and Divining Women (Unabridged). Full availability across Spotify, Apple Books, Audible, and Amazon is below.