The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman

Ernest J. Gaines

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Suggestions for Further Reading

Auger, Philip. Native Sons in No Man's Land: re-writing Afro-American manhood in the novels of Bladwin, Walker, Wideman, and Gaines. New York: Garland Press, 2000.

Babb, Valerie Melissa. Ernest Gaines. Boston: Twayne, 1991.

Beavers, Herman. Wrestling Angels into Song: the Fictions of Ernest J. Gaines and James Alan McPherson. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1995.

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

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

Gaudet, Marcia and Wooten, Carl. Porch Talk with Ernest Gaines: Conversations on the Writer's Craft. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State Press, 1990.

Lowe, John. Conversations with Ernest Gaines. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 1995.

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