Ernest James Gaines was conceived January 15, 1933, on Stream Lake Estate in Oscar, a residential area in Pointe Coupee Ward, close New Streets, Louisiana. The most established of twelve youngsters, he was raised by his awesome close relative, Augusteen Jefferson, who gave the motivation to Miss Jane Pittman, and in addition other solid dark female characters, for example, Miss Emma and Tante Lou in Lesson. Gaines' origin serves as the model for his anecdotal universe of Bayonne and St. Raphael Area. Except for his fourth novel, In My Dad's Home, the greater part of Gaines' anecdotal work is set in Bayonne. In spite of the fact that he has spent a lot of his life since age fifteen in San Francisco, he composes only about existence in the South.
