 and "The Old Turk's Load" (Mysterious Press, 2013)

After receiving his BA from Swarthmore College in 1967, Gregory Gibson enlisted in the United States Navy and worked as a shipfitter until 1971.Gibson has said he considers this period “an ideal grad school experience.”

After his discharge from the Navy in 1971 he moved to Gloucester, Massachusetts and was variously employed as a house painter, cab driver, and construction worker.In 1974 he married Anne Marie Crotty, and in 1976 he opened Ten Pound Book Company, and began his career as an antiquarian book dealer.