A Lesson Before Dying

This article is about the novel. For the film, see A Lesson Before Dying (film).
A Lesson Before Dying
AuthorErnest J. Gaines
LanguageEnglish
PublisherKnopf Publishing Group
Publication date
1993
Publication placeUnited States
Media typePrint (paperback)
Pages256 pp
ISBN978-0-375-70270-9
OCLC438410499

A Lesson Before Dying is Ernest J. Gaines' eighth novel, published in 1993 and won the National Book Critics Circle Award. The novel is based on the true story of Willie Francis, a young Black American man best known for surviving a failed electrocution in the state of Louisiana, in 1946.[1]

  1. ^ "Writing A Lesson Before Dying" (PDF). 2005. Retrieved 2017-03-30.