Conversations with Ernest Gaines Book

	Introduction
	Chronology
	An Interview: Ernest J. Gaines	3
	A Conversation with Ernest J. Gaines	16
	Ernest J. Gaines	25
	On the Verge: An Interview with Ernest J. Gaines	39
	A Conversation with Ernest Gaines	56
	He Must Return to the South	69
	The Other 300 Years: A Conversation with Ernest J. Gaines, Author of The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman	72
	Ernest Gaines	80
	This Louisiana Thing That Drives Me: An Interview with Ernest J. Gaines	86
	Ernest J. Gaines	99
	Ernest Gaines: A Conversation	112
	An Interview with Ernest J. Gaines	119
	Interview with Ernest Gaines	137
	A MELUS Interview: Ernest J. Gaines - "Other Things to Write About"	149
	An Interview with Ernest Gaines	172
	An Interview with Ernest J. Gaines	200
	Writer Draws on Pointe Coupee Childhood	217
	Talking with Ernest Gaines	221
	Interview with Ernest Gaines	241
	Writing about Race in Difficult Times: An Interview with Ernest J. Gaines	253
	Bard from the Bayou	276
	The Haunting Voice of Ernest Gaines	282
	A New Star in the Canon	287
	Southern Sage Savors His Rise to Success	293
	An Interview with Ernest Gaines	297
	Index	329