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A Gathering of Old Men by Ernest Gaines

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Name: Ernest J. Gaines
Birth Date: 15 January 1933

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Biography of Ernest J. Gaines
8803 words, approx. 29.3 pages
Ernest J. Gaines is one of the best known of contemporary black writers. He received popular and critical recognition for the publication and subsequent television production of The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman. His importance in this and other wor...
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Biography of Ernest J(ames) Gaines
8608 words, approx. 28.7 pages
Ernest J. Gaines is one of the best-known of contemporary black writers. He received popular and critical recognition for the publication and subsequent television production of The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman. His importance in this and other wor...
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Biography of Ernest J(ames) Gaines
8524 words, approx. 28.4 pages
[This entry was updated by Keith E. Byerman (Indiana State University) from his entry in DLB 152: American Novelists Since World War II, Fourth Series.] Ernest J. Gaines has since the publication of The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman in 1971 establis...
 


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A Gathering of Old Men Summary
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A Gathering of Old Men by Ernest J. Gaines Emest J. Gaines was born January 15, 1933, in Oscar, Louisiana, and began his life among cotton pickers in the old slaves' quarters at River Lake Plantation. Although he moved as a teenager to California and...
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A Gathering of Old Men is a novel by Ernest J. Gaines published in 1983. Set on a 1970s Louisiana cane farm, the novel addresses racial discrimination and a bond that cannot be...


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`A GATHERING OF OLD MEN';Lou Gossett Jr. and a Circle of Friends
05/10/1987: 333 words, approx. 1 pages
It's called "A Gathering of Old Men," and it is, more than that, a gathering of rich and diverse talents, behind the camera and in front of it. Louis Gossett Jr. and Richard Widmark star in this TV movie set in the Louisiana...
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And on CBS, `Gathering of Old Men,' An Evocative Tale of the Rural South
05/09/1987: 718 words, approx. 2 pages
Murder, racism and the hot, sweaty South generally make for a lurid mix. But writer Charles Fuller seems to know how to orchestrate these potent elements without succumbing to raw sensationalism. Like his prize-winning play and film, "A Soldier's Story," his teleplay for...
 


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