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A Lesson Before Dying is Ernest J. Gaines' eighth novel, published in 1993 and won the National Book Critics Circle Award.The novel is based on the true story of Willie Francis, a young Black American man best known for surviving a failed electrocution in the state of Louisiana, in 1946.
Ernest James Gaines (January 15, 1933 – November 5, 2019) 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.
A Lesson Before Dying is a 1999 American made-for-television drama film adapted from the 1993 Ernest J. Gaines novel of the same name. It won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Television Movie [ 1 ] and a Peabody Award .
Willie Francis (January 12, 1929 – May 9, 1947) was an American teenager known for surviving a failed execution by electrocution in the United States. [2] He was a convicted juvenile sentenced to death at age 16 by the state of Louisiana in 1945 for the murder of Andrew Thomas, a pharmacy owner in St. Martinville who had once employed him.
Ernest Gaines, author of “The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman,” has been honored by the issuing of a U.S. postal stamp bearing his picture. Gaines who died three years ago in his hometown ...
"Gruesome Gertie" is the instrument of death in Ernest J. Gaines's novel A Lesson Before Dying. It's used to execute the young black man Jefferson, for a murder he didn't commit. It's also mentioned in another Gaines' novel set in Louisiana, The Tragedy of Brady Sims.
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