Kaye Gibbons

Mary Ellen Snodgrass is an award-winning author of English and Latin textbooks and reference works for 40 years. She taught at Hickory High School and Lenoir Rhyne University in North Carolina for 23 years. Her writing focuses on women’s and world literature and history and general research topics, including epidemics, the history of money, clothing, food, and dance. She lives in Hickory, North Carolina.

• Table of ContentsAcknowledgments      Preface      Introduction      Chronology of Gibbons’s Life and Works      Gibbons’s Genealogy      Kaye Gibbons: A Literary Companion       Appendix A: Time Line of Historical and Fictional Events in Gibbons’s Works      Appendix B: Writing and Research Topics      Bibliography      Index

“an exceedingly detailed chronology...a useful section on topics for teachers...given Ellen Foster’s popularity among high school literature teachers and the lack of any monographic critical studies of Gibbons, high school and undergraduate libraries should acquire this work. Recommended”—Choice; “very well researched and written”—ARBA; “excellent series of Literary Companions”—Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine.