Jan pettman biography

This article is about the book. For the TV film, see The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman (film).

1971 novel by Ernest J.

Gaines

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.

Jan pettman biography

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.

The novel was dramatized in a TV movie in 1974, starring Cicely Tyson.

Realistic fiction novel

The novel, and its main character, are particularly notable for the breadth of time, history and stories they recall.

In addition to the plethora of fictional characters who populate Jane's narrative, Jane and others make many references to historical events and figures over the close-to-a hundred years Miss Jane can recall. In addition to its obvious opening in the American Civil War,