Jennifer Kathleen Gibbons's Reading Interests
Favorite Books
p>To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, Betty Smith
What I'm Reading
What I'm reading: Disturbing the Peace, Richard Yates
Favorite Authors
Dorothy Allison,Laurie Halse Anderson,Lynda Barry,Elizabeth Berg, Judy Blume,Erma Bombeck,Susan Browne,Frances Hodgson Burnett,Meg Cabot,Beverly Cleary, Diablo Cody, Justin Cronin,Jennifer Crusie, Paula Danziger,Sarah Dessen,Connie May Fowler,Kaye Gibbons (no relation!),Ariel Gore, Cynthia D. Grant, Alice Hoffman, Ellen Hopkins, Jessica Barksdale Inclan,John Irving,Marian Keyes, Haven Kimmel, Barbara Kingsolver,Claire Labine, Wally Lamb, Anne Lamott,Lorna Landvik,Adair Lara,Maud Hart Lovelace,Jo-Ann Mapson,Douglas Marland, Armistead Maupin, Linda McCarriston,Larry McMurtry,Christopher Moore, Laurie Notaro, Phyllis Reynolds Naylor,Sharon Olds,Leonard Pitts,Amy Sherman-Palladino,Jodi Picoult,Cornelia Read,Marilyn Sachs, David Sedaris, Betty Smith, Linda Bloodworth-Thomason,Wendelin Van Draanen, James Wilcox, Jennifer Weiner,Michael Lee West, Bailey White, Phyllis Whitney, and Jacqueline Winspear.
Influences
The Ramona books, Beverly Cleary Nancy Drew books by Carolyn Keene (mostly written by Harriet Stratemeyer and Mildred Wirt Benson) Harriet the Spy, Louise Fitzhugh Joni Mitchell
Laurie Notaro, Erma Bombeck
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About Jennifer
Jennifer Gibbons lives in Lafayette, California. She is the grand prize winner of the Red Room Housewarming contest and one of the winners of the Summer Reading Experience Contest. She is working on a young adult novel and a book of essays.
Connections
Causes Jennifer Gibbons Supports
Gilda's Club, Greenpeace, Rosie's Broadway Kids,Westwind Foster Family Agency, Amber Brown Fund, Linda Duncan Fund for Contra Costa Libraries
Jennifer’s Favorite Books
p>To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, Betty Smith
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