Fellowship of Southern Writers

ERNEST J. GAINES

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 MacArthur 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.

Fellowship of Southern Writers A. R. Ammons James Applewhite Richard Bausch Madison Smartt Bell Wendell Berry Doris Betts Joseph Blotner Cleanth Brooks Fred Chappell George Core James Dickey Ellen Douglas Clyde Edgerton Ralph Ellison Horton Foote Shelby Foote John Hope Franklin Ernest J. Gaines George Garrett Kaye Gibbons Gail Godwin Allan Gurganus Barry Hannah Beth Henley William Hoffman Josephine Humphreys Blyden Jackson Madison Jones Donald Justice Yusef Komunyakaa C. Eric Lincoln Romulus Linney Andrew Lytle Bobbie Ann Mason Jill McCorkle Marsha Norman Walker Percy Reynolds Price John Shelton Reed Louis D. Rubin, Jr. Mary Lee Settle Lewis P. Simpson Dave Smith Lee Smith Monroe K. Spears Elizabeth Spencer William Styron Walter Sullivan Henry Taylor Peter Taylor Ellen Bryant Voigt Robert Penn Warren Eudora Welty Allen Wier C. Vann Woodward Charles Wright

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