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A Lesson Before Dying
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Works by Ernest J. Gaines

Catherine Carmier, 1964
Of Love and Dust, 1967
Bloodline, 1968
The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman, 1971
A Long Day in November, 1971
In My Father's House, 1978
A Gathering of Old Men, 1983
A Lesson Before Dying, 1993
Mozart and Leadbelly: Stories and Essays, 2005

Other Works about Gaines and the Historical Context of A Lesson Before Dying

Chafe, William H., Raymond Gavis, and Robert Korstad, eds. Remembering Jim Crow: African Americans Tell About Life in the Segregated South. New York: New Press, 2001.


Hughes, Langston. The Big Sea: An Authobiography. 1940. New York: Hill and Wang, 2002.


Lowe, John, ed. Conversations with Ernest Gaines. Jackson, MS: University Press of Mississippi, 1995.

Simon, Scott. Jackie Robinson and the Integration of Baseball. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2002.


Washington, Booker T. Up from Slavery: An Autobiography. 1901. New York: Random House, 1999.

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