Gaines 256 pages; Vintage A Lesson Before Dying tells the story of these two men who, through no choice of their own, come together and form a bond in the realization that sometimes simply choosing to resist the expected is an act of heroism. Get this from a library! A Lesson Before Dying. [Ernest J Gaines] -- An Oprah Book Club selection Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction. A Lesson Before Dying by libmeh - a community-created list: Read A Lesson. Read A Lesson Before Dying, other books by Ernest Gaines, similar novels, and books on related current and historical topics. Downloadable Audiobook - 2007.

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Ernest J Gaines Early Life
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in Pointe Coupee Parish (Louisiana) , The United States

January 15, 1933

Literature & Fiction, Historical Fiction

Born to a sharecropping family, Ernest Gaines was picking cotton in the fields by age nine and only attended school five or six months a year. When he was fifteen, he moved to California to join his mother who had relocated during World War II, and began writing. He attended San Francisco State University, served in the army, and won a writing fellowship to Stanford University. Gaines has been a MacArthur Foundation fellow, inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Letters, awarded the National Humanities Medal, and inducted into the French Order of Arts and Letters as a Chevalier. He and his wife split their time between Louisiana and San Francisco.

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“Why is it that, as a culture, we are more comfortable seeing two men holding guns than holding hands? ”
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“I want you to show them the difference between what they think you are and what you can be.”
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“I have no more to say except this: We must live with our own conscience.”
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