Author Background
The picture above is a picture of the author, Ernest Gaines (Right) and his wife, Dianne. (Left) Gaines is described as, "One of the finest American writers today," by Newsweek. He has been nominated for both the Nobel Prize in Literature and the Pulitzer Prize. Gaines has devoted his life to literature. He says that he writes "five hours a day, five days a week." Gaines mostly writes about Southern fiction and African- American fiction such as, "The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman."