Foster, Ellen (For Further Study)

For Further Study

• Leonore Fleischer, "Is It Art Yet?," in Publishers Weekly, Vol. 231, May 8, 1987, p. 34.

  An account of how Ellen Foster was written and published.

• Kaye Gibbons, "My Mother, Literature, and a Life Split Neatly into Two Halves," in The Writer on Her Work, Vol. II, edited by Janet Sternburg, Norton, 1991, pp. 52-60.

  An autobiographical account of how Gibbons became a writer and the influence her mother has had on her.

• Veronica Makowsky, "Walker Percy and Southern Literature," in The Walker Percy Project, December 3, 1997, http://sunsite.unc.edu/wpercy/makowsky.html.

  Focusing mainly on the works of Walker Percy, this article answers the question "What is Southern Literature?," giving rich historical and cultural background to this literary tradition. Gibbons is mentioned as an example of a writer in the Southern women's tradition.

• Julian Mason, "Kaye Gibbons (1960-)," in Contemporary Fiction Writers of the South: A Bio-bibliographical Source-book, edited by Joseph M. Flora and Robert Bain, Greenwood Press, 1993, pp. 156-68.

  Mason provides a brief biographical account of Gibbons, along with an analysis of some of the major themes in her writing.

• Don O'Briant, "Seeing Beyond Illness," in y'all the arts: arts, entertainment, fun and silly things people do, December 2, 1997, http://www.yall.com/thearts/quill/gibbons.html.

  An interview with Gibbons that touches on her beginnings as a writer, her family life, her novels, and her manic depression.

• Bob Summer, "PW interviews," in Publishers Weekly, Vol. 240, February 8, 1993, pp. 60-61.

  An interview with Kaye Gibbons in which she discusses the autobiographical aspects of Ellen Foster and the difficulties she encountered when writing her fourth novel, Charms for the Easy Life.