... and Juliet tragedy. In 1968 he wrote Bloodline of five short stories, one of which The Sky Is Gray became a PBS film. In 1971 he wrote the Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman, made by CBS into the Emmy Awards winning television film starring Cicely Tyson. In 1971 he wrote A Long Day In November about the rites of passage between young and old ... a forbidden romance. The novel is about a young black man bonded out of prison by a white landowner and placed under supervision. Gaines search is for human dignity. The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman is well over one hundred years old lady ...

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