The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman by Ernest J. Gaines is a powerful and moving story of a woman's life, spanning more than a century of American history. Told in the voice of Miss Jane Pittman, an elderly African-American woman living in
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The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman is a 1971 novel by Ernest J. Gaines. The story depicts the struggles of Black people as seen through the eyes of the narrator, a woman named Jane Pittman. She tells of the major events of her life from the time she was a young slave girl in the American South at the end of the Civil War.