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Issue Date: 1/23/2023
The 46th stamp in the Black Heritage series honors author
Ernest J. Gaines (1933-2019). Best known for such novels as The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman and A Lesson Before
Dying, Gaines drew from his childhood as the son of sharecroppers on a Louisiana plantation to explore the untold stories of rural African Americans.