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Ernest J. Gaines Quotes
There will always be men struggling to change, and there will always be those who are controlled by the past.
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| Birth: | 15th January, 1933 |
| Nationality: | American |
| Profession: | Novelist |
About
Ernest James Gaines was born in Oscar, Louisiana, USA. He is an American novelist whose works have been taught in college classrooms and translated into many languages. 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. He has been a MacArthur Foundation fellow and awarded the National Humanities Medal. In 1956, he published his first short story, The Turtles. He earned a B.A. degree in Literature from San Francisco State University in 1957. He has written several novels include: Catherine Carmier, Of Love and Dust, Bloodline, The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman, A Long Day in November, In My Father's House, A Gathering of Old Men, and A Lesson Before Dying.
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