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    Retrieved November 5, 2019. Wolfgang Lepschy and Ernest J. Gaines, "A MELUS Interview :Ernest J. Gaines", The Society for the Study of the Multi-Ethnic...
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  • A Lesson Before Dying (category Novels by Ernest J. Gaines)
    A Lesson Before Dying is Ernest J. Gaines' eighth novel, published in 1993. It was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize and won the National Book Critics Circle...
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  • The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman (category Novels by Ernest J. Gaines)
    The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman is a 1971 novel by Ernest J. Gaines. The story depicts the struggles of blacks as seen through the eyes of the narrator...
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  • published by Little, Brown and Company on June 15, 2021. It won the Ernest J. Gaines Award for Literary Excellence and was longlisted for the 2021 Booker...
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  • A Gathering of Old Men (category Novels by Ernest J. Gaines)
    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...
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  • (2018), was the winner of the PEN Oakland Josephine Miles Award and the Ernest J. Gaines Award for Literary Excellence. It was also a finalist for the National...
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    stories. Jackson is a Whiting Award recipient and a former winner of the Ernest J. Gaines Award for Literary Excellence. In 2021, while an assistant professor...
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  • 1999 American made-for-television drama film adapted from the 1993 Ernest J. Gaines novel of the same name. It won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding...
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    an American television film based on the novel of the same name by Ernest J. Gaines starring Cicely Tyson as the titular heroine. The film was broadcast...
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  • March 17, 2021. "Winners". The Ernest J. Gaines Award for Literary Excellence. Retrieved March 17, 2019. "Ernest J. Gaines Award for Literary Excellence...
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  • coming to terms with his sexuality. The book was the winner of the 2019 Ernest J. Gaines Award for Literary Excellence, the 2020 Dylan Thomas Prize, and the...
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  • - Allen, Beauregard, Calcasieu, Cameron, and Jefferson Davis. The Ernest J. Gaines Award for Literary Excellence is an annual literary award that recognizes...
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  • 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...
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  • University of Louisiana at Lafayette, where he was mentored by writer Ernest J. Gaines. In 2016, he became writer-in-residence at UNC-Asheville, his alma...
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  • later recorded by Elvis Presley In My Father's House (novel), by Ernest J. Gaines In My Father's House (film), a Moroccan film and winner of the 1998...
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    won the Shirley Jackson Award for Best Novel in 2009, as well as the Ernest J. Gaines Award for Literary Excellence and an American Book Award in 2010. The...
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    Oxford American Winner of the 10th Ernest J. Gaines Award for Literary Excellence Winner of the 2017 Judy Gaines Young Book Award Winner of the 2017...
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  • Bonaventure's Landing. Oscar's most noted resident was the novelist Ernest J. Gaines, who was the fifth generation of his family to be born on the River...
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  • the people the place and the time as it was framed in the novel by Ernest J Gaines." Ron Weiskind in his review published in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette...
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  • P. Gaines (1777–1849), United States Army officer, brother of George Strother Ernest J. Gaines (1933–2019), African American author George Gaines (set...
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  • HBO's 1999 adaptation of A Lesson Before Dying, the 1993 novel by Ernest J. Gaines. Hammond, Beach and Sams all appeared in the 1995 film Waiting to Exhale...
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  • conservation The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman, a 1971 novel by Ernest J. Gaines Pitman (disambiguation) This disambiguation page lists articles associated...
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    under 40" writers of 2010. This novel was also the winner of the 2011 Ernest J. Gaines Award for Literary Excellence, a literary award established by the...
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  • serial killer Genea Brice, first poet laureate of Vallejo, California Ernest J. Gaines Gregory Allen Howard Charles Jordan Mark Joseph D.L. Lang, second poet...
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    Outstanding Television Movie. It was based on the novel of the same name by Ernest J. Gaines. He had two major film roles in 2000, starring as Montel Gordon, a DEA agent...
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  • African-American origin and authors of African descent. Two of these awards are Ernest J. Gaines Award for Literary Excellence, which was established in 2007 by the...
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    critics—including Maya Angelou, Amiri Baraka, Jayne Cortez, Angela Davis, Ernest J. Gaines, Henry Louis Gates Jr., Rosa Guy, June Jordan, Paule Marshall, Louise...
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    1995. They served as the childhood home for African-American novelist Ernest J. Gaines. They are wood-frame buildings supported by brick piers. They are located...
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    a decade earlier. "Gruesome Gertie" is the instrument of death in Ernest J. Gaines's novel A Lesson Before Dying. It's used to execute the young black...
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  • actress (b. 1925) November 5 Sally Dixon, film curator (b. 1932) Ernest J. Gaines, author (b. 1933) Michael Sherwood, keyboardist and singer (b. 1959)...
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