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A Lesson Before Dying
''A Lesson Before Dying'' is Ernest J. Gaines' eighth novel, published in 1993; it won the National Book Critics Circle Award. The novel is based on the true story of Willie Francis, a young Black American man best known for surviving a failed electrocution in the state of Louisiana, in 1946.