Jennifer Gibbons Girl Writer at large

About Me

Jennifer GibbonsJennifer Gibbons
Lafayette, CA
Member since: Apr, 2008
Last login: 09/01/2008
Last update : 08/24/2008
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photo credit: Jean Cobb

Birthday06/05/1972
HometownPleasant Hill,CA
NicknameJen, Doc Gibbons (one of my best friends calls me this)
EthnicityWhite/Caucasian
NationalityUnited States

About Me

  • Jennifer Gibbons lives in Lafayette, California. She is working on a young adult novel.

Marriage

  • Well hey, I am all for marriage, but I'm not married yet.

Relationships

  • parents, niece, nephew, cat

Favorite Books

  • To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, Betty Smith

Favorite Authors

  • Dorothy Allison,Laurie Halse Anderson,Lynda Barry, Judy Blume,Elizabeth Berg,Susan Browne,Frances Hodgson Burnett,Meg Cabot,Beverly Cleary,Justin Cronin,Jennifer Crusie, Paula Danziger,Sarah Dessen,Connie May Fowler,Kaye Gibbons (no relation!),Ariel Gore, Alice Hoffman, Jessica Barksdale Inclan,John Irving,Marian Keyes,Barbara Kingsolver,Claire Labine,Anne Lamott,Lorna Landvik,Adair Lara,Maud Hart Lovelace,Jo-Ann Mapson,Douglas Marland, Armistead Maupin, Linda McCarriston,Larry McMurtry,Christopher Moore,Phyllis Reynolds Naylor,Sharon Olds,Leonard Pitts,Amy Sherman-Palladino.Jodi Picoult,Cornelia Read,David Sedaris,Linda Bloodworth-Thomason,Wendelin Van Draanen,Jennifer Weiner,Michael Lee West Phyllis Whitney,Jacqueline Winspear

What I'm Reading

  • Welcome To Shirley,Kelly McMasters, Blue Shoes and Happiness, Alexander McCall Smith

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

CAUSES I SUPPORT

  • American Libraries Hurricane Katrina Relief Fund, Gilda's Club, Greenpeace, Rosie's Broadway Kids,Westwind Foster Family Agency

UNIVERSITY AFFILIATION

  • Mills College