... Parish near New Roads, Louisiana (this town is represented by the city of Bayonne in his stories). Gaines was brought up by his aunt Augesteen Jefferson, due to the fact that his parents had moved out to the West (citation). His beloved aunt later became the roles model for his best known character, Miss Kane Pittman. Ernest Gaines was raised to work hard for what he wanted ... , and common to most Blacks in the area he lived, by the young age of nine he was picking cotton out on ... the plantation fields (citation). Gaines's first step towards his ... ...

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