Florence A. "Flo" Gibson (February 7, 1924 â€" January 7, 2011) was an
American narrator of audiobooks. She has also been in many radio
dramas as well as appearing on stage. She graduated from New York's
Neighborhood Playhouse. She died of cancer in 2011.She said she loved
the classics. Some of her favorite authors to record were 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.Gibson started her own recorded books
company, Audio Book Contractors, Inc. in 1983 at a time when there
were very few audiobook companies, and the few that existed were not
including unabridged classic audiobooks in their catalogues. Realizing
the importance of preserving such works for the listening public, she
created her own company to preserve unabridged classic books for the
listening audience. She then employed local talent from the Washington
theatre community to help her in the recording, monitoring, packaging
and distribution of all varieties of classic books on cassettes. Some
of these early employees, such as Grover Gardner, Mary Woods and John
MacDonald, have gone on to continue their careers with great success
in the recorded book industry and related fields.In 2009 she recorded
her 1,130th book. Flo Gibson Biography, NetWorth, Height, Age, Weight, Family, Married, Son, Daughter