Background
Gregory Gibson was born on 10 July, 1945 in Athol, Massachusetts, United States. His father was a traveling salesman, and the family moved frequently, mostly in the northeastern quarter of the country.
4925 Merrick Rd, Massapequa, NY 11758, United States
Gregory Gibson attended Massapequa High School.
500 College Ave, Swarthmore, PA 19081, United States
In 1967 Gibson earned a bachelor's degree at Swarthmore College.
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On December 14, 1992, Gregory Gibson’s eighteen-year-old son Galen was murdered, shot in the doorway of his college library by a fellow student gone berserk. The killer was jailed for life, but for Gibson the tragedy was still unfolding. The morning of the shooting, he learned, college officials had intercepted but not stopped a box of ammunition addressed to the murderer. They were also anonymously warned of the intended killing but failed to call the police. After years of frustrated attempts to find peace, Gibson woke one morning to a terrible vision of his own rage and helplessness. He knew he had to do something before he destroyed himself, and he resolved to discover and document the forces that led to Galen’s death.
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1999
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In 1985, Gregory Gibson was sent a handwritten journal discovered by a small-time book dealer in rural Indiana. It turned out to be a young officer’s account of an 1825 naval expedition dispatched to the Pacific with orders to apprehend the perpetrators of the Globe mutiny. The mutiny was notorious as the goriest crime in American maritime history, involving hatchet murders, stabbings, shootings, and a shipboard lynching. The long-lost journal provided the first eyewitness account of the fate of the mutineers, and of the innocent men left at the mercy of the tattooed islanders who adopted and enslaved them.
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2002
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From the moment Bob Langmuir, a down-and-out rare-book dealer, spies some intriguing photographs in the archive of a midcentury Times Square freak show, Hubert’s Museum, he knows he’s on to something. In fact, he’s made the find of a lifetime—never-before-seen prints by the legendary Diane Arbus. He begins to suspect that what he’s found may add a pivotal chapter to what is known about Arbus and about the "old weird America," in Greil Marcus’s phrase, that Hubert’s inhabited. Bob’s ensuing adventure takes him from the fringes of the rare-book business to Sothey’s, from freak show exhibits to the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
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2008
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New Jersey, 1967. Angelo DiNoto is a powerful crime lord who bolsters his empire by importing pure heroin from an old Turkish farmer. But when a five-million-dollar shipment goes missing during the Newark riots, DiNoto isn’t the only one to turn over every rock—and bust some heads, arms, and legs—to find it. A shady developer sees the heroin as the key to rejuvenating his fading business. His daughter Gloria, literally in bed with a band of wannabe revolutionaries, thinks the stash could be her chance to escape her father’s influence and impress the woman she truly loves. "The Mailman" is a longtime postal clerk who’s survived the worst that life has to offer—until throat cancer robs him of his voice and the will to live. To him, the drugs are a ticket to a better place. Topping off the wild cast of characters running through Newark and Manhattan is Walkaway Kelly, a private eye and Hell’s Kitchen barfly who teeters continually on the brink of redemption.
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2013
Gregory Gibson was born on 10 July, 1945 in Athol, Massachusetts, United States. His father was a traveling salesman, and the family moved frequently, mostly in the northeastern quarter of the country.
Gregory Gibson attended Massapequa High School. In 1967 he earned a bachelor's degree at Swarthmore College.
After graduation from college, Gregory joined the United States Navy and worked as a dock repairer for more than three years. In 1971 he moved to Massachusetts. That was a five-year period when he did a variety of jobs. Finally, in 1976, Gibson started his own business. He opened Ten Pound Book Company in Gloucester and became an antiquarian book dealer.
On December 14, 1992, Gibson's oldest son Galen was shot by another student, Wayne Lo, as Lo went on a random shooting rampage throughout the campus of Simon’s Rock College in Great Barrington, Massachusetts. Gibson was angered to learn that a package of ammunition had gone through to the killer unchecked by the college's security and warnings of the shootings had gone unheard. Thus, Gregory's first book appeared. In Gone Boy: A Walkabout, Gibson tells the story of his son’s death and his journey to find out how and why this tragedy occurred. Gibson talked to everyone involved, including Simon’s Rock administrators and students, the psychiatrists who evaluated Lo, Lo’s parents, and the man who sold Lo the gun. "Gibson takes the reader down a harrowing path no parent should have to travel. He moves with grace and dignity, never exploiting the narrative’s events in a sensational light," claimed Barry Johnson in an Austin Chronicle review. Booklist contributor James Klise called the book a "tender, compelling, and well-written memoir."
In 1984 Gibson acquired the 1820s journal of naval midshipman Augustus Strong. Strong, Gibson soon learned, was part of a team that rescued the remaining sailors from the ship the Globe, a Nantucket whaler. Gibson tells the tragic story of the Globe in Demon of the Waters: The True Story of the Mutiny on the Whaleship Globe. On December 15, 1822, the Globe set out in search of whales with Captain Thomas Worth in charge. On board as a crew member was Samuel Comstock. As the whaling season went on, men grew disgruntled because of the poor conditions and food. Comstock devised a plan in which he would kill the captain and take charge of the men and form his own kingdom on an island. On January 26, 1824, Comstock, with the help of a few other men, killed the captain and other officers on the ship. They landed on what is now known as Mili Atoll, and while there Comstock’s conspirators felt he was trying to cheat them and they killed him. Six of the crewman were able to escape and sail away on the Globe. When Augustus Strong and his crew got to Mili Atoll to rescue the survivors, they found that only two out of the nine left on the island had not been killed by the island’s natives.
Among other Gibson's works: the book Hubert's Freaks and a crime novel The Old Turk's Load.
Besides, Gibson has been engaged in civic activities. In 1998 he founded The Galen Gibson Fund. It is a state and federally registered non-profit organization and since its establishment the fund has contributed to local educational initiatives, to community and faith-based groups that work with victims of gun violence, and to organizations that promote commonsense gun laws.
(From the moment Bob Langmuir, a down-and-out rare-book de...)
2008(On December 14, 1992, Gregory Gibson’s eighteen-year-old ...)
1999(In 1985, Gregory Gibson was sent a handwritten journal di...)
2002(New Jersey, 1967. Angelo DiNoto is a powerful crime lord ...)
2013Gregory Gibson is a proponent of creating additional gun laws. He speaks a lot on the issues of gun violence and works with those who suffered from it.
Gregory Gibson is married to Annie Marie Crotty. They gave birth to three children: Galen (deceased), Brooks, and Celia.