Gary R. Libby

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Libby was born in Boston, Massachusetts, the second of three sons to Sylvia Phillips Libby of Boston and Charles Willard Libby of Machias, Maine. After graduation from Fort Myers Senior High School, Ft. Myers, Florida, he attended the University of Florida where he received an Associate of Arts, Bachelor and Masters of Arts degrees in English Literature. Libby was awarded a post-graduate National Defense Education Act Fellowship to attend Tulane University, New Orleans, Louisiana, where he was accepted into the Doctoral Program with an interest in turn of the century art and literature journals published in England such as the Savoy and the Yellow Book. At Tulane, Libby worked with Dr. Jessie Poesch, Professor of Art History at Sophie Newcomb College, Tulane University, and author of the landmark publication, The Arts of the Old South, 1983. After graduation from Tulane with another Masters in English Literature and the completion of all coursework and examinations for the Ph.D. degree, Libby was hired as an Assistant Professor by Stetson University in 1972.