Kaye Gibbons (Cyclopedia of World Authors)
The novelist Kaye Gibbons established herself on the basis of short, intricately detailed works characterized by penetrating insights and a sophisticated use of often unsophisticated language. After the publication of her intense first novel, Ellen Foster, which was awarded the Sue Kaufman Prize for First Fiction from the American Academy and Institute for Arts and Letters in 1987, she came to be regarded at the forefront of another “Southern Renaissance” in American fiction.
Bertha Kaye Batts began attending North Carolina State University in 1979 but left after two...
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