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Ernest J. Gaines

Ernest J. Gaines

Ernest J. Gaines was an American author. His 1993 novel, A Lesson Before Dying, won the National Book Critics Circle Award for fiction. Gaines was a MacArthur Foundation fellow and was awarded the National Humanities Medal.

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