The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman

by Ernest J. Gaines · first published 1971

The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman is a 1971 novel by Ernest J. Gaines. The story depicts the struggles of Black people as seen through the eyes of the narrator, a woman named Jane Pittman. She tells of the major events of her life from the time she was a young slave girl in the American South at the end of the Civil War. The novel was dramatized in a TV movie in 1974, starring Cicely Tyson.

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Genre:

Autobiography

Original language:

Spanish

Reader rating:

★ 5.0 / 5 (1 on Open Library)

Year page:

1971