Halley (19 page)
Authors: Faye Gibbons
Tags: #Great Depression, #Young Adult Fiction, #Georgia, #Georgia mountains, #fundamentalist Christianity, #YA fiction, #Southern Fiction, #Depression-era
About the Author
Faye Gibbons knows firsthand about the people who populate her books. Born into a large mountain farm family, she grew up in mill towns and mountain communities throughout northern Georgia. After college, she married an Alabama boy and moved away, but part of her heart remains in the mountains of her childhood. Over the years she has shared stories from that childhood with her students and with two sons. Now those tales go into her books. When she isn’t writing, she fills her time with gardening, basket weaving, quilting, and weaving. Gibbons now lives with her husband on an Alabama farm where Gibbons and Johnson ancestors have lived and worked since the 1800s.
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