Gaines, Ernest J.: 1933 - 2019
Information by Ernest Gaines
- Ernest Gaines talks about his life
- Ernest Gaines discusses The Tragedy of Brady Sims. PBS; September 2, 2017
- "That old singing, that old praying which I love so much --- that is the great strength of my being, of my writing," says Ernest Gaines. PBS; February 18, 2011
- "Meet Ernest Gaines. National Endowment for the Arts; February 18, 2011
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Gaines Reflects on Miss Jane Pittman: Scott Simon talks with Ernest J. Gaines who talks about the River Lake plantation in Pointe Coupe Parish, La., the setting for most of his fiction. At age nine, he picked cotton in the plantation fields. He later bought and owned part of the plantation land himself. NPR Radio; February 5, 2005 - Podcast
General Information. American Academy of Achievement, 2017 - Podcast
In a 2000 interview, Ernest Gaines tells why he sets his fiction in the Louisiana of his childhood.