Background
Gibbs was born in New York, the daughter of Janet (née Stang), who worked at Friends Seminary, and Howard Glenn Gibbs, who was the associate national director for the Boys Clubs of America.
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Gibbs was born in New York, the daughter of Janet (née Stang), who worked at Friends Seminary, and Howard Glenn Gibbs, who was the associate national director for the Boys Clubs of America.
She graduated from Yale University in 1982, summa cum laude, with honors in history.
She is the co-author with Michael Duffy of The New York Times Bestsellers The Preacher and the Presidents. Billy Graham in the White House (2007) and The Presidents Club: Inside the World"s Most Exclusive Fraternity (2012). She studied at New College, Oxford as a Marshall Scholar (Master of Arts in Politics, Philosophy and Economics).
She joined TIME in 1985 as a part-time fact checker in the International section.
The Chicago Tribune named her one of the ten best magazine writers in the country in 2003. Her articles are included in the Princeton Anthology of Writing, Best American Crime Writing 2004, Best American Political Writing 2005 and TIME: 85 years of Great Writing.
She has been a frequent guest on radio and television talk shows, including the Today Show, Good Morning America, Charlie Rose, and a guest essayist on the NewsHour with Jim Lehrer. In 1993 and 2006, she served as a Ferris Professor of writing at Princeton University.
In October 2013, she became the first female managing editor of Time magazine.
2013 Chautauqua Prize, shortlist, The Presidents Club.