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A Lesson Before Dying
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A Lesson Before Dying

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  • Ernest J. Gaines

    
Book Critics Circle Award for A Lesson Before Dying (1993), the story of two African Americans—an intellectually disabled man wrongly accused of murder and a teacher who visits him in prison—living in Bayonne. The novella The Tragedy of Brady Sims (2017) follows a newspaper journalist as he researches “a human


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Book Critics Circle Award for A Lesson Before Dying (1993), the story of two African Americans—an intellectually disabled man wrongly accused of murder and a teacher who visits him in prison—living in Bayonne. The novella The Tragedy of Brady Sims (2017) follows a newspaper journalist as he researches “a human


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