About: A Lesson Before Dying

Property	Value
dbo:abstract	A Lesson Before Dying is Ernest J. Gaines' eighth novel, published in 1993. It was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize and 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. (en)
dbo:author	dbr:Ernest_J._Gaines
dbo:imdbId	0179940
dbo:isbn	978-0-375-70270-9
dbo:numberOfPages	256 (xsd:positiveInteger)
dbo:oclc	438410499
dbo:publisher	dbr:Knopf_Publishing_Group
dbo:thumbnail	wiki-commons:Special:FilePath/A_Lesson_Before_Dying_novel.jpg?width=300
dbo:wikiPageExternalLink	http://aalbc.com/authors/ernest.htm http://www.sparknotes.com/lit/lessonbefore/ https://web.archive.org/web/20070928045609/http:/www.articlemyriad.com/147.htm https://web.archive.org/web/20071121005443/http:/library.thinkquest.org/CR0215102/ernest_j_gaines.htm https://www.loc.gov/classroom-materials/united-states-history-primary-source-timeline/great-depression-and-world-war-ii-1929-1945/race-relations-in-1930s-and-1940s/
dbo:wikiPageID	1796535 (xsd:integer)
dbo:wikiPageLength	13606 (xsd:nonNegativeInteger)
dbo:wikiPageRevisionID	1109312653 (xsd:integer)
dbo:wikiPageWikiLink	dbr:Primetime_Emmy_Award_for_Outstanding_Television_Movie dbr:Primetime_Emmy_Award_for_Outstanding_W...ed_Series,_Movie,_or_Dramatic_Special dbr:Pulitzer_Prize dbr:Romulus_Linney_(playwright) dbr:1948_Brooklyn_Dodgers_season dbr:Bayonne dbr:Peabody_Award dbc:1993_American_novels dbc:American_novels_adapted_into_films dbc:Peabody_Award-winning_broadcasts dbr:Mekhi_Phifer dbr:1993_in_literature dbr:Cicely_Tyson dbr:Civil_rights_movement dbr:Emmy_Awards dbr:Oprah's_Book_Club dbr:Louisiana dbc:American_novels_adapted_into_plays dbr:Willie_Francis dbr:A_Lesson_Before_Dying_(film) dbr:Alabama_Shakespeare_Festival dbc:National_Book_Critics_Circle_Award-winning_works dbr:Ernest_J._Gaines dbr:HBO dbr:Jackie_Robinson dbr:Jim_Crow_laws dbc:African-American_novels dbc:Novels_about_teachers dbc:Novels_by_Ernest_J._Gaines dbc:Novels_set_in_Louisiana dbr:Don_Cheadle dbr:SparkNotes dbr:National_Book_Critics_Circle_Award dbr:World_War_II dbr:Knopf_Publishing_Group dbr:Ann_Peacock
dbp:author	dbr:Ernest_J._Gaines
dbp:country	United States (en)
dbp:id	179940 (xsd:integer)
dbp:isbn	978 (xsd:integer)
dbp:language	English (en)
dbp:mediaType	Print (en)
dbp:name	A Lesson Before Dying (en)
dbp:oclc	438410499 (xsd:integer)
dbp:pages	256 (xsd:integer)
dbp:pubDate	1993 (xsd:integer)
dbp:publisher	dbr:Knopf_Publishing_Group
dbp:title	A Lesson Before Dying (en)
dbp:wikiPageUsesTemplate	dbt:About dbt:IMDb_title dbt:ISBN dbt:Infobox_book dbt:Over-quotation dbt:Reflist dbt:Short_description
dc:publisher	Knopf Publishing Group
dcterms:subject	dbc:1993_American_novels dbc:American_novels_adapted_into_films dbc:Peabody_Award-winning_broadcasts dbc:American_novels_adapted_into_plays dbc:National_Book_Critics_Circle_Award-winning_works dbc:African-American_novels dbc:Novels_about_teachers dbc:Novels_by_Ernest_J._Gaines dbc:Novels_set_in_Louisiana
rdf:type	owl:Thing bibo:Book schema:Book schema:CreativeWork dbo:Work wikidata:Q234460 wikidata:Q386724 wikidata:Q571 yago:Artifact100021939 yago:Book106410904 yago:Creation103129123 yago:Object100002684 yago:PhysicalEntity100001930 yago:Product104007894 yago:Publication106589574 yago:Work104599396 dbo:Book dbo:WrittenWork yago:Whole100003553 http://dbpedia.org/class/Book umbel-rc:Book_CW
rdfs:comment	A Lesson Before Dying is Ernest J. Gaines' eighth novel, published in 1993. It was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize and 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. (en)
rdfs:label	A Lesson Before Dying (en)
owl:sameAs	freebase:A Lesson Before Dying http://www4.wiwiss.fu-berlin.de/bookmashup/books/0679414770 yago-res:A Lesson Before Dying wikidata:A Lesson Before Dying https://global.dbpedia.org/id/4JrRK
prov:wasDerivedFrom	wikipedia-en:A_Lesson_Before_Dying?oldid=1109312653&ns=0
foaf:depiction	wiki-commons:Special:FilePath/A_Lesson_Before_Dying_novel.jpg
foaf:isPrimaryTopicOf	wikipedia-en:A_Lesson_Before_Dying
foaf:name	A Lesson Before Dying (en)
is dbo:notableWork of	dbr:Ernest_J._Gaines
is dbo:wikiPageRedirects of	dbr:Grant_Wiggins dbr:Lesson_Before_Dying dbr:ALBD
is dbo:wikiPageWikiLink of	dbr:Romulus_Linney_(playwright) dbr:One_City_One_Book dbr:List_of_awards_and_nominations_received_by_Don_Cheadle dbr:Deaths_in_November_2019 dbr:Mekhi_Phifer dbr:Sahr_Ngaujah dbr:Eltony_Williams dbr:1993_in_literature dbr:Cicely_Tyson dbr:Oprah's_Book_Club dbr:Willie_Francis dbr:A_Lesson_Before_Dying_(film) dbr:Ernest_J._Gaines dbr:Irma_P._Hall dbr:2019_in_literature dbr:AUDELCO dbr:Don_Cheadle dbr:Soul_Food_(film) dbr:Gruesome_Gertie dbr:Grant_Wiggins dbr:NAACP_Theatre_Award_for_Best_Lead_Female_–_Local dbr:National_Board_of_Review_Awards_1999 dbr:NAACP_Image_Award_for_Outstanding_Acto...ovie,_Mini-Series_or_Dramatic_Special dbr:NAACP_Theatre_Award_for_Best_Lead_Male_–_Local dbr:NAACP_Theatre_Award_for_Best_Producer_–_Local dbr:National_Book_Critics_Circle_Award_for_Fiction dbr:Lesson_Before_Dying dbr:ALBD
is foaf:primaryTopic of	wikipedia-en:A_Lesson_Before_Dying