NMLP P-039365 · True-first precedence · minted 2026-07-19

The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman

Ernest J. Gaines · Dial Press · 1971

US The Dial Press, New York, 1971 is the true first. The first British edition was published by Michael Joseph, London; the 1973 date carried in the census could not be corroborated against two independent sources and should not be asserted as fact. The Dial edition holds precedence regardless.

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New Mexico Literacy Project — True-first precedence NMLP P-039365 for "The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman" by Ernest J. Gaines (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/id/point/p-039365, CC BY 4.0, dataset DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21184548).