

# Event Details

- **Event Name**: A Lesson Before Dying by Ernest J. Gaines
- **Event Start and End Date**: Mon, 20 Apr, 2026 at 05:15 pm (-04:00)
- **Event Description**: NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNER • A deep and compassionate novel about a young man who returns to 1940s Cajun country to visit a Black youth on death row for a crime he didn't commit. Together they come to understand the heroism of resisting.

"An instant classic." —Chicago Tribune

A “majestic, moving novel...an instant classic, a book that will be read, discussed and taught beyond the rest of our lives" (Chicago Tribune), from the critically acclaimed author of A Gathering of Old Men and The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman.

"A Lesson Before Dying reconfirms Ernest J. Gaines's position as an important American writer." —Boston Globe

"Enormously moving.... Gaines unerringly evokes the place and time about which he writes." —Los Angeles Times

“A quietly moving novel [that] takes us back to a place we've been before to impart a lesson for living.” —San Francisco Chronicle
- **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/baxley/a-lesson-before-dying-by-ernest-j-gaines/200029846640951
- **Event Categories**: art, literary-art
- **Interested Audience**: 
  - total_interested_count: 3

## Ticket Details

- **Ticket URL**: http://facebook.com/200029846640951?utm_source=AllEvents.in&utm_medium=event-discovery-platform&utm_campaign=baxley-events

## Event venue details

- **city**: Baxley
- **state**: GA
- **country**: United States
- **location**: Appling County Public Library
- **lat**: 31.77689743042
- **long**: -82.345016479492
- **full address**: Appling County Public Library, 242 E Parker St,Baxley, Georgia, United States

## Event Organizer details

- **affiliate_id**: 2
- **organizer**: A Novel Idea Book Club (https://allevents.in/org/a-novel-idea-book-club/13825520)

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## FAQs

- **Q**: When is the event happening?
  - **A:** Mon, 20 Apr, 2026 at 05:15 pm (-04:00)
- **Q**: Where is the event happening?
  - **A:** Appling County Public Library, 242 E Parker St,Baxley, Georgia, United States
- **Q**: Who is organizing the event?
  - **A:** A Novel Idea Book Club
- **Q**: What type of event is this?
  - **A:** art, literary-art
- **Q**: Where can I find ticket details about A Lesson Before Dying by Ernest J. Gaines ?
  - **A:** You can find ticket details about this event on AllEvents.

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