Ellen Foster
Novel
By: Kaye Gibbons
Date: 1987
Source: Gibbons, Kay. Ellen Foster. 1987. First Vintage Contemporaries Edition. New York: Vintage, 1988.
About the Author: Kaye Gibbons (1960–) was born in Nash County, in rural North Carolina. She attended North Carolina State University and the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. The author of several books set in the South, Gibbons won the Sue Kaufman Prize for First Fiction for the novel Ellen Foster.
Introduction
Kaye Gibbons is one of a long line of Southern women writers who have created memorable female characters such as Ellen Foster, Ruby Pitts Woodrow Stokes, Charlie Kate, and Hattie Barnes—all of whom leave an impression upon the reader. Her women are survivors who are often fiercely independent. Ellen Foster is the thirteen-year-old girl who the reader encounters in Gibbons's first novel,...
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