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| Author | Ernest J. Gaines |
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| Language | English |
| Genre | Historical fiction |
| Publisher | Dial Press (1971) Bantam Books (1972) |
Publication date | 1971 |
| Pages | 259 |
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.