Ernest J. Gaines (1933–2019)
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A propos de l'auteur
Ernest James Gaines was born on January 15, 1933, on the River Lake Plantation, Pointe Coupee Parish, Louisiana. 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 afficher plus inducted into the French Ordre des Arts et des Lettres (Order of Arts and Letters) as a Chevalier. Although he was educated in California (at San Francisco State College and Stanford University), his fiction is dominated by images and characters drawn from rural Louisiana, where he was born and raised. Unquestionably the most recognizable, and probably the best, of Gaines's novels is The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman (1971), a fictional account of the long life of a black woman born a slave on a Louisiana plantation. Through the stories of the many fascinating people who touch Jane's life, Gaines presents not only a moving perspective on the struggles of African Americans but also a social history of the United States since the Civil War. It is a testimony to Gaines's skill as a writer and storyteller that many people believe Jane Pittman was a real person. Indeed, the novel is frequently misshelved in the biography section of bookstores. In 1993 Gaines also won the Dos Passos Prize and in 2000 he won the National Humanities Medal. Of Gaines's other works, Bloodline (1976), a collection of five short stories, stands out for its powerful portrayals of young men in search of self-respect and dignity. In 2013 President Barack Obama presented Mr. Gaines with the National Medal of Arts. Ernest J. Gaines passed away on November 5,2019 at this home in Oscar, LA at the age of 86. (Bowker Author Biography) afficher moins
Crédit image: Ian Edelstein / Seattle Municipal Archives
Œuvres de Ernest J. Gaines
Oeuvres associées
Breaking Ice: An Anthology of Contemporary African-American Fiction (1990) — Contributeur — 275 exemplaires
The Best Short Stories by Black Writers, 1899-1967: The Classic Anthology (1967) — Contributeur — 174 exemplaires
Growing Up in the South: An Anthology of Modern Southern Literature (1991) — Contributeur — 142 exemplaires
Calling the Wind: Twentieth Century African-American Short Stories (1992) — Contributeur — 100 exemplaires
A Way Out of No Way: Writing about Growing Up Black in America (1996) — Contributeur — 33 exemplaires
Étiqueté
Partage des connaissances
- Nom légal
- Gaines, Ernest James
- Date de naissance
- 1933-01-15
- Date de décès
- 2019-11-05
- Lieu de sépulture
- Mount Zion Baptist Church Cemetery, Port Hudson, Louisiana, USA
- Sexe
- male
- Nationalité
- USA
- Lieu de naissance
- River Lake Plantation, Pointe Coupee Parish, Louisiana, USA
- Lieu du décès
- Oscar, Louisiana, USA
- Lieux de résidence
- Pointe Coupee Parish, Louisiana, USA
Vallejo, California, USA
San Francisco, California, USA
Lafayette, Louisiana, USA - Études
- San Francisco State College
Stanford University - Professions
- novelist
professor (creative writing ∙ University of Louisiana at Lafayette) - Organisations
- American Academy of Arts and Letters (1998)
Fellowship of Southern Writers (charter member)
University of Louisiana at Lafayette - Prix et distinctions
- National Humanities Medal (2000)
American Academy of Arts and Letters Academy Award (1987)
John Dos Passos Prize (1993)
Louisiana Writer Award (2000)
F. Scott Fitzgerald Award for Outstanding Achievement in American Fiction (2001)
Cleanth Brooks Medal for Lifetime Achievement (2011) (tout afficher 10)
Sidney Lanier Prize for Southern Literature (2012)
MacArthur Fellowship (1993)
Guggenheim Fellowship (1972 ∙ Fiction)
National Medal of Arts (2013) - Courte biographie
- 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 (Order of Arts and Letters) as a Chevalier.
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- Œuvres
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- Membres
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- ISBN
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