| Ernest J. Gaines AKA Ernest James Gaines Born: 15-Jan-1933
Birthplace: Pointe Coupee Parish, LA
Gender: Male
Race or Ethnicity: Black
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Novelist Nationality: United States
Executive summary: A Lesson Before Dying Military service: US Army (1953-54) Father: Manuel Gaines
Mother: Adrienne Colar
Wife: Dianne Saulney (attorney, m. 15-May-1993)
University: BA Literature, San Francisco State University (1957)
University: Stanford University (on a Wallace Stegner Fellowship, studied 1958)
Professor: English Literature, University of Louisiana at Lafayette
American Academy of Arts and Letters 1998
Guggenheim Fellowship 1971
National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction (1993)
MacArthur Fellowship 1993
National Humanities Medal 2000
Author of books:
Catherine Carmier (1964, novel)
Of Love and Dust (1967, novel)
Bloodline (1968, novel)
The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman (1971, novel)
A Long Day in November (1971, novel)
In My Father's House (1978, novel)
A Gathering of Old Men (1983, novel)
A Lesson Before Dying (1993, novel)
Mozart and Leadbelly: Stories and Essays (2005, anthology)
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