Set in Louisiana, this novel is set against the backdrop of a small Cajun community during the Jim Crow Era. Jefferson, a young black man, is accused and convicted of murder for perpetrating a shoot-out in a liquor store, which left three men killed. Being the sole survivor of a crime that occurred unwittingly, Jefferson is sentenced to death.
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Ernest James Gaines 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, won the National Book Critics Circle Award for fiction. Gaines was a MacArthur Foundation fellow.
