Ernest James Gaines (January 15, 1933 – November 5, 2019) was an American author whose works have been taught in college classrooms and translated into...

The Ernest J. Gaines Award for Literary Excellence is an annual national literary award designed to recognize rising African American fiction writers....

A Lesson Before Dying is Ernest J. Gaines' eighth novel, published in 1993 and won the National Book Critics Circle Award. The novel is based on the true...

The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman is a 1971 novel by Ernest J. Gaines. The story depicts the struggles of Black people as seen through the eyes of...

A Gathering of Old Men is a novel by Ernest J. Gaines published in 1983. Set on a 1970s Louisiana cane farm, the novel addresses racial discrimination...

" He was pronounced dead in the chair at 12:10 p.m. (Central Time). Ernest Gaines' 1993 novel A Lesson Before Dying, telling the story of a young black...

Travelle Ernest Gaines (born 9 March 1981 in Arabi, Louisiana) currently now runs his own performance facility, Athletic Gaines, after several years at...

Gaines' Florida Bar status was listed as delinquent and thus not eligible to practice law in Florida. In 1993, Gaines married author Ernest J. Gaines...

Historic Places in 1983. The plantation is the birthplace of author Ernest Gaines, who played in its slave quarters area while a child. Two of those slave...

nonfiction. Representative authors include Kate Chopin, Alcée Fortier, Ernest Gaines, Walker Percy, Anne Rice and John Kennedy Toole. A printing press began...