Ernest J. Gaines

Jan 15, 1933 - Nov 5, 2019

Ernest James Gaines was an American author whose works have been taught in college classrooms and translated into many languages, including French, Spanish, German, Russian and Chinese. Four of his works were made into television movies.
His 1993 novel, A Lesson Before Dying, won the National Book Critics Circle Award for fiction. Gaines was a MacArthur Foundation fellow, was awarded the National Humanities Medal, and was inducted into the French Ordre des Arts et des Lettres as a Chevalier.
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“Sometimes you got to hurt something to help something. Sometimes you have to plow under one thing in order for something else to grow.”

Ernest J. Gaines
Jan 15, 1933 - Nov 5, 2019
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