"This majestic moving novel is an instant classic a book that will be read discussed and
taught beyond the rest of our lives."-Chicago Tribune Winner of the National Book Critics
Circle Award A Lesson Before Dying is 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. From the critically
acclaimed author of A Gathering of Old Men and The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman.
