A Gathering of Old Men | About the Author
Ernest Gaines was born on a plantation on January 15, 1933 in Pointe Coupee Parish, Louisiana. Even though he has lived primarily in San Francisco, where he was educated, Gaines's first fifteen years in Louisiana growing up in a culture whose complicated racist "rules" governing whites, Cajuns, and blacks were still in effect has shaped his imagination. Nothing is left of that life today except a half-acre hundred-year-old black cemetery surrounded by the plantation's sugar cane, yet Gaines still is tied to people buried there. In the world in which Gaines lived up to midadolescence—a...
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