NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Novelist Ernest J. Gaines, whose impoverished childhood on a small Louisiana plantation inspired stories of black struggles that blossomed into universal tales of grace and beauty, will be featured on a stamp – US postage which will be issued in January.
The stamp will be the 46th in the U.S. Postal Service’s Black Heritage series and will feature an oil painting, based on a photograph that depicts Gaines wearing his trademark beret, the University of Louisiana at Lafayette said in a statement Monday. hurry.
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