Ernest J. GainesAutobiograpy of Miss Jane Pittman

By Ernest J. Gaines

In My Father's House

By Ernest J. Gaines

A compelling novel of a man brought to reckon with his buried past... In St. Adrienne, a small black community in Louisiana, Reverend Phillip Martin—a respected minister and civil rights lead...

A Gathering of Old Men

By Ernest J. Gaines

A powerful depiction of racial tensions arising over the death of a Cajun farmer at the hands of a black man--set on a Louisiana sugarcane plantation in the 1970s. The Village Voice called A Gather...

Catherine Carmier

By Ernest J. Gaines

A compelling debut love story set in a deceptively bucolic Louisiana countryside, where blacks, Cajuns, and whites maintain an uneasy coexistence--by the award-winning author of A Lesson Before Dyi...

Of Love and Dust

By Ernest J. Gaines

“A serious, powerful novel…[Gaines] is a writer of terrific energy.”—The Nation This is the story of Marcus: bonded out of jail where he has been awaiting trial for murder,...

Bloodline

By Ernest J. Gaines

In these five stories, Ernest Gaines returns to the cane fields, sharecroppers' shacks, and decaying plantation houses of Louisiana, the terrain of his great novels A Gathering of Old Men and A Les...

A lesson before dying

By Ernest J. Gaines

In my father's house

By Ernest J. Gaines

Conversations with Ernest Gaines

By Ernest J. Gaines

The winner in 1994 of the National Book Critics Circle Award for A Lesson Before Dying, Gaines, whose career spans more than thirty-five years, continues to receive increasing critical and popular...

Conversations with Ernest Gaines

By Ernest J. Gaines

The winner in 1994 of the National Book Critics Circle Award for A Lesson Before Dying, Gaines, whose career spans more than thirty-five years, continues to receive increasing critical and popular...