{"id":1369,"date":"2013-09-24T08:43:40","date_gmt":"2013-09-24T15:43:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=1369"},"modified":"2018-04-11T11:02:54","modified_gmt":"2018-04-11T18:02:54","slug":"gibbons-faye-1938","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=1369","title":{"rendered":"GIBBONS, FAYE, 1938-"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Biography:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Teacher, writer. Born&#8211; January 31, 1938, \u00a0in Carter&#8217;s Quarter, Ga. Parents&#8211; George Manley and Alice Lenell (Searcy) Junkins. Education&#8211; Oglethorpe University, 1950; Emory University, 1961; Berry College, B.A., 1961; graduate study, Auburn University. Married&#8211; Benjamin Turner Gibbons on August 29, 1964. Children&#8211; Two. Taught high school, Dalton, Ga. 1961-1963; elementary school, Marietta, Ga., 1963-1964; Beauregard High School, Lee County, Ala., 1964-1966; elementary school, Huntsville, 1966-1969. Member of the Alabama Library Association, Montgomery Creative Writers. Contributed articles to Old House Journal.\u00a0 Member Alabama Library Association and Montgomery Creative Writers. Received the Georgia Book of the Year Award for juvenile fiction, 1983, and the Alabama Author Award, 1998.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Contemporary Authors online<\/p>\n<p><strong>Publication(s):<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Breaking New Ground:\u00a0 The History of the Autauga Quality Cotton Association.\u00a0 Black Belt Press, 1993.<\/p>\n<p>The Day the Picture Man Came.\u00a0 Boyds Mills Press, 2003.<\/p>\n<p>Emma Jo&#8217;s Song.\u00a0 Honesdale, PA:\u00a0Boyds Mills Press, 2001.<\/p>\n<p>Full Steam Ahead.\u00a0 Boyds Mills Press, 2002.<\/p>\n<p>Halley.\u00a0 NewSouth Books, 2014.<\/p>\n<p>Hernando de Soto:\u00a0 A Search for Gold and Glory.\u00a0 Crane Hill, 2002.<\/p>\n<p>Hook Moon Light:\u00a0 Spooky Tales from the Georgia Mountains.\u00a0 Morrow, 1997.<\/p>\n<p>Horace King:\u00a0 Bridges to Freedom.\u00a0 Crane Hill Press, 2002.<\/p>\n<p>King Shoes on Clown Pockets.\u00a0 Morrow, 1989.<\/p>\n<p>Mama and Me and the Model-T.\u00a0 Morrow, 1999.<\/p>\n<p>Mighty Close to Heaven. New York; Morrow, 1985.<\/p>\n<p>Mountain Wedding.\u00a0 Morrow, 1996.<\/p>\n<p>Night in the Barn.\u00a0 Morrow, 1995.<\/p>\n<p>Some Glad Mornings. New York; Morrow, 1982.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Biography: Teacher, writer. Born&#8211; January 31, 1938, \u00a0in Carter&#8217;s Quarter, Ga. Parents&#8211; George Manley and Alice Lenell (Searcy) Junkins. Education&#8211; Oglethorpe University, 1950; Emory University, 1961; Berry College, B.A., 1961; graduate study, Auburn University. Married&#8211; Benjamin Turner Gibbons on August 29, 1964. Children&#8211; Two. Taught high school, Dalton, Ga. 1961-1963; elementary school, Marietta, Ga., 1963-1964; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1369","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-authors","category-g-i"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1369","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1369"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1369\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7815,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1369\/revisions\/7815"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}