... about a black Romeo 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. In 1978 he wrote In My Father ... 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 that relates a personal history that sp...

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