Ernest James Gaines (January 15, 1933 – November 5, 2019) was an American author. Four of his works were made into television movies. [2] Born in Louisiana, Gaines spent his early life living on …

Nov 1, 2025 · 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 …

Born in 1933 on a plantation near New Roads, Louisiana, Dr. Gaines based his award-winning novels on the African American experience in the rural South. His works include The Autobiography of Miss …

Nov 5, 2019 · One of America's most acclaimed authors, and a revered professor of literature, Ernest Gaines lived the last decades of his life in a great house on land that was once part of the plantation …

Ernest J. Gaines was born on this date in 1933. He was a Black writer and educator. He was born on River Lake Plantation in Pointe Coupee Parish near New Roads, Louisiana (which he would call …

May 22, 2017 · In 1967, Gaines won a National Endowment for the Arts grant; and in 1993, he was awarded the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Fellowship. His work has been …

Feb 3, 2025 · “A grand, robust, most valuable novel that is impossible to dismiss or to put down.” “He uses a couple of dozen narrators, each of whom he imbues with a voice that is distinct and …