Mostly Short Stories

About the Book

The book is a compilation of mainly comedic short stories illustrated by the author. In addition, he has appended, in a centerfold, scores of paintings, drawings, sculpture and cartoons that he has created over a fifty-year span. Most of the stories in the book are based on the author’s personal experiences as a child growing up in The Bronx and as a married dermatologist living in Westchester, New York, and spending summers in Westhampton Beach, Long Island, with his two young children. He also includes stories about being a dermatologist in mid-town Manhattan and an artist and art teacher when he retired to Florida. Several of the short stories are totally off-the-wall and seem to bear scant relationship to any of his life experiences.

About the Author

Richard Carl Gibbs was born in The Bronx in 1929 and went to The Bronx High School of Science. He completed his undergraduate and medical school training at the University of Louisville and completed dermatological training in New York at Bellevue Hospital in 1960. He practiced in midtown Manhattan and was on the staff of The Skin and Cancer Unit of New York University Medical Center. He retired in 1997and lives in Westhampton Beach and in Florida, where he currently teaches art. He has painted, drawn or sculpted for the past 50 years. He lives with his wife. They have two married children and four grandchildren.