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Ernest Gaines
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Author
San Francisco State
B.A. Literature (1957)
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Award-winning author of
A Lesson Before Dying
,
The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman
and
A Gathering of Old Men
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Is an inductee in the American Academy of Arts of Letters and the French Order of Arts and Letters.
Published his first story in 1956 in San Francisco State's
Transfer
literary magazine.
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