Here are tributes to 10 notable people who died in 2019 …
Some were theologians, others were writers or other public figures who have shaped our work. They all will be missed!
Ernest J. Gaines
(Novelist)
His 1993 novel, A Lesson Before Dying, won the National Book Critics Circle Award for fiction. Gaines was a MacArthur Foundation fellow, was awarded the National Humanities Medal, and was inducted into the French Ordre des Arts et des Lettres (Order of Arts and Letters) as a Chevalier.
Gaines was among the fifth generation of his sharecropper family to be born on a plantation in Pointe Coupee Parish, Louisiana. That became the setting and premise for many of his later works. He was the eldest of 12 children, raised by his aunt, who was crippled and had to crawl to get around the house. Although born generations after the end of slavery, Gaines grew up impoverished, living in old slave quarters on a plantation.
Read our tribute to Ernest Gaines.
Books by Ernest Gaines
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I was surprised by the absence of Larry Hurtado on this list.
YES! This was indeed a significant oversight on our part. I remember seeing obituaries when Hurtado died, but somehow my memory failed me when I was compiling this list.
If I get a chance over the next couple of days, I might add him to the list. He definitely belongs here!
~ Chris