Interview

by Ernest J. Gaines

Discusses Gaines' style and conscious attention to questions of from, including his use of jazz, gospel and blues, and classical musical elements in his prose.

48 pages, Audio Cassette

First published January 1, 1987

About the author

Ernest James Gaines was an American author whose works have been taught in college classrooms and translated into many languages, including French, Spanish, German, Russian and Chinese. Four of his works were made into television movies.
His 1993 novel, A Lesson Before Dying, won the National Book Critics Circle Award for fiction. Gaines was a MacArthur Foundation fellow, was awarded the National Humanities Medal, and was inducted into the French Ordre des Arts et des Lettres (Order of Arts and Letters) as a Chevalier.