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| ERNEST
J. GAINES was awarded the National Book Critics Circle Award for his novel, A
Lesson Before Dying. Other
works include Of Love and Dust, The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman, A Gathering of
Old Men, and Bloodline, a
collection of short stories. He
received a McArthur Foundation Award in 1993, was named Chevalier de
l’Ordre des Lettres in 1996, and 1998 was elected to the American
Academy of Arts and Letters. |
