Title: The Autobiography Of Miss Jane Pittman Author: Ernest J. Gaines Year and place published: 1971, New York, Toronto, London, Sydney, and Auckland. Number of pages: 259 Type of Book: Fictional Autobiography Biography of Author: Ernest James Gaines was born in 1933 on River Lake Plantation in Louisiana. He is the author of six novels including the widely acclaimed Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman. Gaines' fiction deals exclusively with life in rural black America, specifically in the fictional …
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…of American life, or American people? The book is positive and negative of American life. It could proclaim that the book is a Civil Rights Movements. Or it can be about the painful life of a slave who encounters one indignity after another. In all cases, The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman reminds us that we all hurt the in same ways--free and slaved, black or white, rich or poor. We all share this life.