(C) Verite News New Orleans This story was originally published by Verite News New Orleans and is unaltered. . . . . . . . . . . Ernest J. Gaines, Toni Morrison honored with stamps in 2023 [1] ['Verite News'] Date: 2022-10-27 Louisiana author Ernest J. Gaines and Nobel Prize-winning writer Toni Morrison will be honored on new U.S. postage stamp designs in 2023, the U.S. Postal Service has announced. Gaines, who is best known for his novels “The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman,” “A Lesson Before Dying” and “A Gathering of Old Men,” was the fifth generation of a sharecropper family to be born on a plantation in Pointe Coupee Parish. Gaines gained critical and popular acclaim with “The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman,” a 1971 novel narrated by a 110-year-old former slave. The 1974 movie adaptation won nine Emmy Awards, including Cicely Tyson’s Best Actress Award for the title role. Gaines’ image will be on the 46th stamp in the Black Heritage series. The stamp features an oil painting of Gaines, based on a 2001 photograph. Gaines died in November 2019 at the age of 86. Morrison, who was the first African American woman to win the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1993, is known for her books “The Bluest Eye,” “Song of Solomon” and “Beloved.” Morrison won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for “Beloved,” a 1987 novel based on the true story of an African American enslaved woman. The stamp features a photograph of Morrison taken in 2000. Morrison died in August 2019 at the age of 88. Republish This Story Republish our articles for free, online or in print, under a Creative Commons license. Close window X Republish this article This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License. Unless otherwise noted, you can republish most of Verite’s stories for free under a Creative Commons license. For digital publications: Look for the “Republish This Story” button underneath each story. To republish online, simply click the button, copy the html code and paste into your Content Management System (CMS). You can’t edit our stories, except to reflect relative changes in time, location and editorial style. You can’t sell or syndicate our stories. Any web site our stories appear on must include a contact for your organization. If you share our stories on social media, please tag us in your posts using @VeriteNewsNola @VeriteNewsNola For print publications: You have to credit Verite. We prefer “Author Name, Verite News” in the byline. If you’re not able to add the byline, please include a line at the top of the story that reads: “This story was originally published by Verite News” and include our website, veritenews.org You can’t edit our stories, except to reflect relative changes in time, location and editorial style. You cannot republish our photographs, illustrations or graphics without specific permission (contact our managing editor Tim Morris Our stories may appear on pages with ads, but not ads specifically sold against our stories. You can’t sell or syndicate our stories. You can only publish select stories individually — not as a collection. Any web site our stories appear on must include a contact for your organization. If you share our stories on social media, please tag us in your posts using @VeriteNewsNola on Facebook @VeriteNewsNola on Twitter. If you have any other questions, contact managing editor Tim Morris. Ernest J. Gaines, Toni Morrison honored with stamps in 2023

Ernest J. Gaines, Toni Morrison honored with stamps in 2023

by Verite News, Verite
October 27, 2022

Louisiana author Ernest J. Gaines and Nobel Prize-winning writer Toni Morrison will be honored on new U.S. postage stamp designs in 2023, the U.S. Postal Service has announced.

Gaines, who is best known for his novels “The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman,” “A Lesson Before Dying” and “A Gathering of Old Men,” was the fifth generation of a sharecropper family to be born on a plantation in Pointe Coupee Parish.

Gaines gained critical and popular acclaim with “The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman,” a 1971 novel narrated by a 110-year-old former slave. The 1974 movie adaptation won nine Emmy Awards, including Cicely Tyson’s Best Actress Award for the title role.

Gaines’ image will be on the 46th stamp in the Black Heritage series. The stamp features an oil painting of Gaines, based on a 2001 photograph. Gaines died in November 2019 at the age of 86.

Morrison, who was the first African American woman to win the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1993, is known for her books “The Bluest Eye,” “Song of Solomon” and “Beloved.” Morrison won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for “Beloved,” a 1987 novel based on the true story of an African American enslaved woman.

The stamp features a photograph of Morrison taken in 2000. Morrison died in August 2019 at the age of 88.

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