A Lesson Before Dying

Ernest J. Gaines

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Suggestions for Further Reading

Carmean, Karen. Ernest J. Gaines: A Critical Companion. Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press, 1998.

Estes, David C., ed. Critical Reflections on the Fiction of Ernest J. Gaines. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1994.

Gaines, Ernest J. A Gathering of Old Men. New York: Vintage Press, 1983.

———. The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman. New York: Dial Press, 1971.

Genovese, Eugene. Roll, Jordan, Roll: The World the Slaves Made. New York: Random House, 1993.

Prejean, C. S. J. Dead Man Walking. New York: Harper and Row, 1991.

Rosengarten, Theodore. All God’s Dangers: The Life of Nate Shaw. New York: Broadway Books, 1989.

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