Gaines, Ernest J., 1933-2019

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Name (Latin)
Gaines, Ernest J., 1933-2019
Name (Arabic)
غينز، إرنست ج.، 1933-
Other forms of name
Gaines, Ernest J., 1933-
Date of birth
1933-01-15
Date of death
2019-11-05
Associated country
United States
Occupation
Essayists
Novelists
Gender
male
MARC
MARC
Other Identifiers
VIAF: 85689714
Wikidata: Q673217
Library of congress: n 50015467
HAI10: 000110173
Sources of Information
  • His Catherine Carmier, 1964.
  • IMDb, May 22, 2009(Ernest J. Gaines; b. Jan. 15, 1933, Oscar, Louisiana, USA; writer, self)
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Wikipedia description:

Ernest James Gaines (January 15, 1933 – November 5, 2019) 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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