{"type":"link","asset_type":"article","version":"1.0","cache_age":3600,"provider_name":"CANVAS Arts","provider_url":"https:\/\/artscanvas.org","title":"Acclaimed novelist Ernest Gaines dies at 86","publication_date":"November 05, 2019","summary":"Novelist Ernest J. Gaines, whose poor childhood on a small Louisiana plantation town germinated the stories of black struggles that grew into universal stories of grace and beauty, has died. He was 86.","author_name":"By Associated Press","thumbnail_url":"https:\/\/cdn.artscanvas.org\/static\/2019\/11\/8f37392af1bc32daf72a44ccabc49fa9-GettyImages-173232456-1024x681.jpg","thumbnail_height":681,"thumbnail_width":1024}