at the University of Rennes in France, where he taught the first creative writing class ever offered in the French university system. In the final years of his life, Gaines lived on Louisiana Highway 1 in Oscar, Louisiana, where he and his wife built a home on part of the old plantation where he grew up. He had the building where he attended church and school moved to his property. Gaines died from natural causes at his home on November 5, 2019. He was 86 years old. Bibliography Books Catherine Carmier (1964) Of Love and Dust (1967) Bloodline (1968) The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman (1971) A Long Day in November (1971) In My Father's House (1978) A Gathering of Old Men (1983) A Lesson Before Dying (1993) – nominated for Pulitzer Prize, National Book Critics Circle Award for fiction (1993); Oprah's Book Club (1997) Mozart and Leadbelly: Stories and Essays (2005) The Tragedy of Brady Sims (2017) Short stories "The Turtles" (1956) "Boy in the Double-Breasted Suit" (1957) "Mary Louise" (1960) "Just Like a Tree" (1963) "The Sky Is Gray" (1963) "A Long Day in November" (1964) "My Grandpa and the Haint" (1966) "Christ Walked Down Market Street" (1984 - publish 2004) Filmography The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman, CBS Television (1974) – Directors Guild of America Award, eight Emmy Awards, nominated for a BAFTA award The Sky Is Gray, American Short Story Series, PBS (1980) A Gathering of Old Men, CBS Television (1987) A Lesson Before Dying, HBO (1999); winner, Emmy Award for Outstanding Made For Television Movie Awards National Medal of Arts 2012 Sidney Lanier Prize for Southern Literature (2012) American Academy of Achievement's Golden Plate Award (2001) The F. Scott Fitzgerald Award for Achievement in American Literature award that is given annually in Rockville, Maryland, the city where Fitzgerald, his wife, and his daughter are buried as part of the F. Scott Fitzgerald Literary Festival (2001). Chevalier (Knight) of the Order of Art and Letters (France) (2000) American Academy of Arts and Letters Department of Literature (2000) The Governor's Arts Award (2000) The Louisiana Writer Award (2000) National Humanities Medal (2000) National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction (1993) John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Fellow (1993) Dos Passos Prize (1993) Honorary Doctor of Humane Letters (L.H.D.) degree from Whittier College (1986) Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation Fellow (1971) National Endowment for the Arts grant (1967)