2023 Black Heritage: Ernest J. Gaines Forever Postage Stamps – First-Class Mail, Sheet

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The stamp design pictures an oil painting of Gaines based on a photograph taken in 2001 by Raoul Benavides.

Ernest James Gaines (January 15, 1933 – November 5, 2019) was an American author known for his works on race, community, and culture in the South. He earned many awards including the National Humanities Medal, National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction, and more.

Gaines was born on River Lake Plantation in Pointe Coupee Parish, Louisiana, to Adrian Jefferson and Manuel Gaines. The family lived in old slave quarters and Gaines’s parents worked on the plantation until they moved to California when he was eight. Gaines stayed behind and was raised by his great aunt. He later credited her with teaching him many of the things he needed to become a writer.