Flo Gibson

Flo Gibson

Flo Gibson is a prolific narrator of audio books. She has also been in many radio dramas as well as appearing on stage. She graduated from New York's Neighborhood Playhouse.

Flo Gibson was a familiar voice to listening audiences during the golden years of radio, an actress in the E.T.O. during World War II, and she performed in Equity Library Theater in New York. After retiring to raise a family, she returned to her career 20 years ago. She recently celebrated recording her 1,000th book for the Library of Congress and seven commercial companies. Her narration has won national acclaim, four times on the American Library Association’s “Notable Recordings for Children” lists and three times as the recipient of the Parents’ Choice Award. She was also named “Best Female Narrator” in the Audio Awards article in Book World.

She has said she loves the classics. Some of her favorite authors to record are Jane Austen, Henry James, and Charles Dickens. Other notable books she has read are: Jane Eyre, Little Women, The Secret Garden,and The Wizard of Oz, more recently she has recorded Anna Karenina and The War of the Worlds and over one thousand others.

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