The oldest of 12 children, Ernest J. Gaines was born on a plantation where his parents worked in the fields--and where Gaines himself also worked from the age of nine, chopping cane for 50 cents a day. He was largely raised by his beloved disabled aunt, but at 15 he joined his mother and stepfather in California. An avid reader, he began to write, and produced a draft of his first novel when he was 16. He received a B.A. from San Francisco State in 1957, and was a Wallace Stegner Fellow in creat more...
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01/15/1933 Louisiana, South Central States, Southern States, United States,
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Great book about the South and dealing with an ugly past that, like all pasts can not be changed.