Robert F Gibbons Autobiographical Sketch

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This information was published in The Alabama Librarian, January, 1952. Downloaded February 2, 2023 from The Internet Archive: https://archive.org/details/sim_alabama-librarian_1952-01_3_1/page/n5/mode/2up?q=%22Robert+Faucett+Gibbons%22.

This is the only reference I have seen noting the short story, Season of Loss, presumably published in Diameter Magazine. Also notable is the list of towns lived in while attending school.

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Abner Jerome Sundell: 1913-2001

Abner Sundell

Abner Sundell was the father of Eric Sundell. He was a multitalented man from New York. Among other things he was a artist, writer, editor, and publisher of comics and magazines in the 1930’s and 1940’s. He used a pen name of Cliff Campbell. That pseudonym was used as a “house name” by others in the late 1940’s and later. As a publisher, he was part of the creation of Archie Comics!

For a more complete biography, see: https://www.pulpartists.com/Sundell.html.

Here’s the full text of one of his stories, Frozen Frontier, Real Northwest Magazine, Vol 1, No 1, December 1937.

He was also involved in a controversy in polling and testified to a Congressional Committee.

After a career in publishing he decided to work full time as a painter.

Here’s an article about his painting.

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Tuscaloosa Scrapbook by Matt Clinton (2 of 2)

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Tuscaloosa Scrapbook by Matt Clinton 1 of 2

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Matthew William Clinton was (among many other things) an historian of Tuscaloosa. These articles are from the column Tuscaloosa Scrapbook published in the Tuscaloosa News in the late 1960’s. Jimmie or Kathleen Gibbons kept a number of these clippings and they are presented here. Special thanks to David Gibbons for bringing these to my attention.

In addition to these articles, Matt Clinton wrote the book, Matt Clinton’s scrapbook One Hundred and fifty years in the life of Tuscaloosa and Northport.

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Bibliography: Robert F. Gibbons

Robert Gibbons

I have been looking for works by Robert F. Gibbons (Uncle Bob to some of us), I did not find one reliable source. Here are two sources with selected works cited. Full text of some stories is available via link below.

Robert Faucett Gibbons. Encyclopedia of Alabama. Accessed August 23, 2021 from http://encyclopediaofalabama.org/article/h-3117

  • A Loaf of Bread” (The New Republic, 1942)
  • Time’s End” (Atlantic Monthly, 1943)
  • The Poor Rich Uncle” (Esquire, December, 1942)
  • Bright is the Morning, Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1943
  • War’s a Man’s Work” (Mademoiselle,1943)
  • The Patchwork Time, Alfred A. Knopf, New York,1945
  • “The Serpent” (1945)
  • The Brothers” (Colliers, V119, #9, March, 1947)
  • “Remembrance for a Trinity” (1962)
  • Slaves’ Auction” (The Southern Review, Vol XII, #3, Summer, 1976)
  • “Beauregard: An Equestrian Statue” (1980)
  • “Cricket Questioned” (1981)
  • “Pennington’s Birds” (1983)
  • Sestina of the Singing Wind” (Negative Capability, 4:3, Summer, 1984)
  • “Moonfolk” (1986)
  • “Sleeps” (1986)
  • “On Payment in Copies” (1986)
  • “The Cormorant Gone from Alabama” (1986)
  • “At Jo’s Funeral” (1990)
  • “Evening and May” (1990)

Gibbons, Robert (Faucett). The FictionMags Index. Accessed August 23, 2021 from http://www.philsp.com/homeville/fmi/n/n01655.htm

Other works of Robert F. Gibbons not in the two lists above:

Some stories also appeared in anthologies:

  • A Loaf of Bread, Best American Short Stories, ed. Martha Foley, 1942
  • Time’s End, Best American Short Stories, ed. Martha Foley, 1943
  • Departure of Hubbard, Best American Short Stories, ed. Martha Foley, 1949
  • Times End, Spring Harvest: A Collection of Stories from Alabama, ed. Hudson Strode, 1944
  • A Loaf of Bread, Spring Harvest: A Collection of Stories from Alabama, ed. Hudson Strode, 1944
  • War’s A Man’s Work, Spring Harvest: A Collection of Stories from Alabama, ed. Hudson Strode, 1944
  • Time’s End, Many Voices, Many Rooms, Beidler, University of Alabama Press, 1998
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The Riverman by Elliott Gibbons

The Riverman by Elliott Gibbons

This story appeared in the Birmingham News, Sunday, December 7, 1947.

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