After finding limited success with his novels, Catherine Carmier and Of Love and Dust, his most recent novel centers on Grant Wiggins who talks to Ms. Emma's condemned son before he is sent to the electric chair.
This author sets much of his work in the fictional Bayonne, which is patterned on his native Point Coupee (Koo-Pee). In My Father's House centers on a minister who sells out his followers, while the collection Bloodline traces the impact of miscegenation. After finding limited success with his novels, Catherine Carmier and Of Love and Dust, his most recent novel centers on Grant Wiggins who talks to Ms. Emma's condemned son before he is sent to the electric chair. His most famous work is the story of a 108-year-old woman, who recounts her experiences from the civil war to civil rights. For 10 points-- name this African-American writer of A Lesson Before Dying and the Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman.
This author sets much of his work in the fictional Bayonne, which is patterned on his native Point Coupee (Koo-Pee).
Ernest Gaines