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NAME: Ernest J. Gaines
OCCUPATION: Educator, Author
BIRTH DATE: January 15, 1933 (Age: 80)
EDUCATION: San Francisco State University, Standford University
PLACE OF BIRTH: Oscar, Louisiana
Full Name: Ernest James Gaines
ZODIAC SIGN: Capricorn

Best Known For

Novelist Ernest J. Gaines’s wrote The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman, which reflects the African American experience and oral tradition of rural Louisiana.

Ernest J. Gaines biography

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Ernest J. Gaines was born in 1933, in Oscar, LA. In addition to The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman, a fictional personal history spanning the period from the Civil War to the civil rights movement, his novels include Catherine Carmier, Of Love and Dust, In My Father's House, and A Gathering of Old Men. In 1994 he received the National Book Critics Circle Award for A Lesson Before Dying.

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