Ernest J. Gaines
American author
Ernest James Gaines 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. Wikipedia
Born: January 15, 1933, Oscar, LA
Died: November 5, 2019 (age 86 years), Oscar, LA
Education: San Francisco State University (1957), Stanford University, and Solano Community College
Spouse: Dianne Saulney Gaines (m. 1993–2019)
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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 ...
Gaines achieved both critical and popular acclaim in 1971 with his novel The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman. Narrated by a 110 year old former slave, the ...
Ernest J. Gaines, American writer whose fiction, as exemplified by The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman (1971) and A Lesson Before Dying (1993), ...
Ernest James Gaines was born January 15, 1933, on River Lake Plantation in Oscar, a small town in Pointe Coupee Parish, near New Roads, Louisiana.
Nov 5, 2019 · Gaines died in his sleep of cardiac arrest, according to The Associated Press, citing the Baton Rouge Area Foundation. He is survived by his ...
Nov 5, 2019 · Ernest J. Gaines, Author of 'The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman,' Is Dead at 86. Mr. Gaines chronicled the lives and struggles of black ...
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 ...
Feb 19, 2021 · A collection of five stories, Bloodline, was published in 1968. In his novels and stories, Gaines created a vividly detailed imaginary community ...
Nov 5, 2019 · Written in the form of an oral history, the novel examines a century of African American life from the perspective of Miss Jane Pittman, who ...
Born in 1933 on a plantation near New Roads, Louisiana, Gaines based his award-winning novels on the African American experience in the rural South. His works ...