When researching The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman, Gaines aimed to create an accurate historical environment for the character of a centenarian ex-slave. Borrow from Library, Publication Date: Feb 17, 2015List Price: $25.99 Format: Hardcover, 384 pagesClassification: FictionISBN13: 9780062302120Imprint: Penguin Books Parent Company: Graywolf Press Based on the true story of a modern-day lynching in America, Ravi Howard’s widely acclaimed debut novel exposes one of the most tragic chapters in the history of the American South. Publisher: HarperCollins Publisher: Penguin Random House Although he set his stories in Louisiana, Gaines wrote them in San Francisco. Borrow from Library, Publication Date: Aug 11, 2009List Price: $25.00 Format: Hardcover, 384 pagesClassification: FictionISBN13: 9780385527989Imprint: Spiegel & Grau The humanities are about saying, what can we do to improve it? Learn more at the Baton Rouge Area Foundation. Parent Company: Grove Atlantic, Inc. It is underwritten by donors of the Baton Rouge Area Foundation in honor of the literary heritage provided by author Ernest J. Gaines. "The artist tries to show the truth. Borrow from Library, Publication Date: Sep 02, 2008List Price: $15.00 Format: Paperback, 227 pagesClassification: FictionISBN13: 9781555975098Imprint: Graywolf Press Publication Date: Aug 08, 2017List Price: $25.99 Format: Hardcover, 304 pagesClassification: FictionISBN13: 9781612196367Imprint: Melville House Borrow from Library, Publication Date: Mar 07, 2016List Price: $24.95 Format: Hardcover, 208 pagesClassification: FictionISBN13: 9780813166919Imprint: University Press of Kentucky Publisher: University Press of Kentucky In the '90s, those streets and beyond had fallen under the shadow of crack cocaine and its familiar mayhem. Borrow from Library, Publication Date: May 06, 2014List Price: $17.00 Format: Paperback, 352 pagesClassification: FictionISBN13: 9781620400296Imprint: Bloomsbury USA Parent Company: Bertelsmann It is Gaines's ability to sift through contrasting viewpoints that gives Miss Pittman her credibility, as much as the fact that her character is based on the aunt who raised Gaines, Augusteen Jefferson. Parent Company: BkMk Press at the University of Missouri-Kansas City Parent Company: News Corporation Publisher: BkMk Press at the University of Missouri-Kansas City The Ernest J. Gaines Award for Literary Excellence is a national literary award designed to recognize rising African-American fiction writers. In his commanding debut autobiographical novel, Mitchell writes what it was to come of age in that time and place, with a breakout voice that's nothing less than extraordinary. The Ernest J. Gaines Award for Literary Excellence is a national literary award designed to recognize rising African-American fiction writers. Publisher: HarperCollins "I had to be part of them to write about them in a small cold room in San Francisco.". He says, "History is interpreted by the winners." Jamel Brinkley’s stories, in a debut that announces the arrival of a significant new voice, reflect the tenderness and vulnerability of black men and boys whose hopes sometimes betray them, especially in a world shaped by race, gender, and class―where luck may be the greatest fiction of all. Publication Date: Mar 19, 2019List Price: $25.00 Format: Hardcover, 240 pagesClassification: FictionISBN13: 9780525533672Imprint: Riverhead Books The book award, initiated by donors of the Baton Rouge Area Foundation has become nationally recognized in its role of enhancing visibility of emerging black fiction writers while also … Holding Pattern is a captivating collection by a prodigiously talented writer. Borrow from Library. I would have had to come in the back door with a mop and bucket." Borrow from Library. Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing He spoke with left-wing and right-wing historians, with Confederacy and Union experts, and put it all in the mouth of Miss Jane Pittman, "an intelligent character." On the morning of March 21, 1981, in Mobile, Alabama, nineteen-year-old Michael Donald was found dead, his body badly beaten and hanging from a tree on Herndon Avenue. Publisher: Penguin Random House It is only when Gill Mender?a man haunted by past sins?returns that redemption seems possible. During his time in California he frequently traveled back to Louisiana to reconnect to the land and the people there. The protagonists circle each other with steely determination: a grandson taunts his grandmother, determined to expose her secret past; for years, a sister tries to keep a menacing neighbor away from her brother; and in the local police station, an officer and prisoner try to break each other's resolve. Parent Company: Bertelsmann Parent Company: University Press of Kentucky Many of Gaines's friends have died or moved on. Borrow from Library, Publication Date: Nov 30, 2011List Price: $15.95 Format: Paperback, 221 pagesClassification: FictionISBN13: 9781886157798Imprint: BkMk Press at the University of Missouri-Kansas City Parent Company: Bertelsmann And at a capoeira conference, two brothers grapple with how to tell the story of their family, caught in the dance of their painful, fractured history. Eligible entries are read by a panel of judges, themselves renowned contributors to the literary world. Winner 2019 Ernest J. Gaines Award for Literary Excellence, Winner 2018 Ernest J. Gaines Award for Literary Excellence, Winner 2017 Ernest J. Gaines Award for Literary Excellence, Winner 2016 Ernest J. Gaines Award for Literary Excellence, A Top 10 Book in the “Fiction Books of the 21st Century” Category, Winner 2015 Ernest J. Gaines Award for Literary Excellence, Winner 2014 Ernest J. Gaines Award for Literary Excellence, Winner 2013 Ernest J. Gaines Award for Literary Excellence, Winner 2012 Ernest J. Gaines Award for Literary Excellence, BkMk Press at the University of Missouri-Kansas City, Winner 2011 Ernest J. Gaines Award for Literary Excellence, Winner 2010 Ernest J. Gaines Award for Literary Excellence, Winner 2009 Ernest J. Gaines Award for Literary Excellence, Winner 2008 Ernest J. Gaines Award for Literary Excellence, 19-year-old Michael Donald was kidnapped by three KKK members, Winner 2007 Ernest J. Gaines Award for Literary Excellence. Award-winning author Olympia Vernon’s third novel, A Killing in This Town, is a taut, poetic masterpiece that exhumes a horrific epoch from the annals of the American South.There is a menace in the woods of Bullock County, Mississippi, and not only for the black man destined to be lynched when a white boy comes of age.
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