Conversations with Ernest Gaines

This collection of interviews offers a retrospective look at the long and productive career of Ernest Gaines, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award. Gaines discusses his childhood, his early struggles to get published, and recent life events, including his marriage and receiving a MacArthur Prize. The conversations explore his place among Southern authors and the strong European influences on his writing, which primarily focuses on African-American life in the Deep South.