Porch Talk with Ernest Gaines: Conversations on the Writer's Craft

by Marcia G. Gaudet

Book Overview

Ernest J. Gaines, the author of many acclaimed works of fiction, including The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman and A Gathering of Old Men, was born in 1933 in the small south Louisiana town of Oscar. In his childhood the center of his world was the old slave quarters on the River Lake Plantation, where five generations of his family lived. All of Gaines's books have been set in this general area of Louisiana, and though none of...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 080712608X
• ISBN13: 9780807126080
• Release Date: March 1999
• Publisher: LSU Press
• Length: 168 Pages
• Weight: 0.57 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.7" x 8.5"