Fifty years ago this year, on Jan. 31, 1974, CBS premiered a film adaptation of “The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman,” which became the most-watched television movie in history. The production, ...

This morning, we remember the life of author Ernest Gaines, who died this week. DAVID GREENE, HOST: He wrote several novels that pay tribute to the resiliency of African Americans in rural Louisiana ...

Ernest J. Gaines was born in 1933 to a family of sharecroppers at River Lake Plantation in Oscar, La. They lived in the workers quarters on a dirt road lined on both sides with two-room cabins built ...

The 46th stamp in the Black Heritage series honors Ernest J. Gaines (1933-2019). Best known for novels “The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman” and “A Lesson Before Dying,” Gaines drew from his ...

Over the course of five decades, Baton Rouge freelance writer Ruth Laney returned again and again to the intertwined subjects of Ernest J. Gaines and Cherie Quarters. In “Cherie Quarters: The Place ...

NEW ORLEANS — Novelist Ernest J. Gaines, whose poor childhood on a small Louisiana plantation inspired stories of black struggles that grew into universal tales of grace and beauty, will be depicted ...

LAFAYETTE, La. (WAFB) - The United States Postal Service has revealed a forever stamp to honor the life of author Ernest Gaines. Gaines is best known for his novels “The Autobiography of Miss Jane ...

LAFAYETTE, La. (KLFY)– American author Ernest J. Gaines is honored for his legacy, contribution to literature, and being a voice for African American experiences in the south. The U.S. Postal Service ...