Born December 1, 1921...Dr. Gibson came from Pleasanton, Kansas - Earned B.A. - Missouri Southern State College - M.A. (1948) and Ph.D. (1954) from the University of Oklahoma - He was professor of history and government at Phillips University in Enid - and at the University of Oklahoma in Norman. His works include so many...near three dozen Oklahoma History of Five Centuries of Books. Gibson served as the Oklahoma Center for the Book's first president - the Center named its highest award in honor of the Norman historian. Seven of the 21 authors on the official Literary Map of Oklahoma are...