Ernest J. Gaines
Novelist, Author
1933 –
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Who is Ernest J. Gaines?
Ernest James Gaines is an African-American author. His works have been taught in college classrooms and translated into many languages, including French, Spanish, German, Russian and Chinese. Four of his works have been made into television movies.
His 1993 novel, A Lesson Before Dying, won the National Book Critics Circle Award for fiction. Gaines has been a MacArthur Foundation fellow, awarded the National Humanities Medal, and inducted into the French Ordre des Arts et des Lettres as a Chevalier.
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- Born
- Jan 15, 1933
Oscar - Also known as
- Ernest James Gaines
- Siblings
- Ethnicity
- African American
- Nationality
- United States of America
- Profession
- Education
- Stanford University
- San Francisco State University
- Solano Community College
- Employment
- University of Louisiana at Lafayette
- Lived in
- Louisiana
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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