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George Gibbs
writer
- Birth name:
- George Fort Gibbs
- Born:
- 1870-03-08, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
- Died:
- 1942-10-10, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
- Professions:
- writer
Biography
Born among the jazz-soaked streets of New Orleans on 8 March 1870, George Gibbs spun tales that leapt from the page to the silver screen. His pen first pricked the public’s imagination with the whirlwind romance of *The Madcap* in 1916, ushered audiences into the languid splendor of *Paradise Garden* the next year, and, years later, resurrected the razor-sharp wit of the Enlightenment in 1933’s *Voltaire*. Storyteller to the end, Gibbs died quietly in Philadelphia on 10 October 1942, leaving behind a shelf of characters who still refuse to sit still.
