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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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The novelist Ernest J Gaines drew acclaim and comparisons to Dickens and Faulkner for his richly textured tales of racial injustice in rural Louisiana, including The Autobiography of Miss...
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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.
Nov 5, 2019 · An Interview with the late Ernest J. Gaines from 2007. 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.
Nov 5, 2019 · Ernest James Gaines was a novelist, short story writer, and teacher. Born to a sharecropping family, Ernest James Gaines was picking cotton in the fields by age nine and only attended school five or six months a year.
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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.
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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.
