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Ernest James Gaines (January 15, 1933 – November 5, 2019) was an American author whose works have been taught in college classrooms and translated into many languages, including French, Spanish, German, Russian and Chinese. Four of his works were made into television movies.
Ernest J. Gaines, American writer whose fiction, as exemplified by The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman (1971) and A Lesson Before Dying (1993), reflects the African American experience and the oral tradition of his rural Louisiana childhood. Learn more about Gaines’s life and work.
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Nov 5, 2019 · Ernest J. Gaines died Nov. 5, 2019, in Oscar, Louisiana. He was born into a family that picked cotton on land along False River. He became among the greatest writers of his generation.
Jun 26, 2019 · Excellent introduction to Ernest Gaines that offers a biography as well as analyses of his published fiction up to A Gathering of Old Men. Summarizes plots while also providing critical assessments of Gaines’s themes, uses of regionalism, and narrative strategies.
Mar 25, 2022 · Short story writer, novelist, and essayist, Ernest J. Gaines was born, the eldest of twelve children, on the River Lake Plantation in Point Coupee Parish in Oscar, Louisiana, in 1933.
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Dec 14, 2022 · The first-day-of-issue event for the Ernest J Gaines Black Heritage stamp is free and open to the public. News of the stamp is being shared with the hashtags #BlackHeritageStamps and #ErnestGainesStamp.
