

The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman
Author: Ernest J. Gaines
Narrator: Lynne Thigpen
Unabridged: 10 hr 8 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Recorded Books
Published: 04/18/2014
Categories: Fiction, Classic, Historical Fiction
Author: Ernest J. Gaines
Narrator: Lynne Thigpen
Unabridged: 10 hr 8 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Recorded Books
Published: 04/18/2014
Categories: Fiction, Classic, Historical Fiction
Ernest J. Gaines is a writer-in-residence at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette. His 1993 novel, A Lesson before Dying, won the National Book Critics Circle Award for fiction, was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize, and was an Oprah Book Club pick in 1997. In 2004, he was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature.
The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman: Ernest J. Gaines' novel of the long journey to freedom The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman by Ernest J. Gaines was a selection chosen by members of On the Southern Literary Trail as a group read for January, 2016. Special thanks to Trail member Jane for n......more
The author using the guise of an autobiography, has Miss Jane Pittman, who lives to be around 110, telling her story and it's quite an interesting one as she lived through being a slave, to emancipation, and on through to the civil rights era. I think I read this first in Junior High-school , that's......more