European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - February 15, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 8 the stars and stripes . Tuesday february 15,1994 novel about Black life wins Book award new York a a novel on Black life in Louisiana before the civil rights Era has captured the National Book critics Circle award for most distinguished fiction. The award announced sunday went to Ernest Gaines for a lesson before dying. " ,. The critics other picks for Best new american books of 1993 were Alan Lomax s nonfiction work the land where the blues began Panthe on Edmund White s biography Genet Alfred a Knopf Mark Doty s poetry my Alexandria University of Illinois press and opera in America a cultural history Yale University Pressa Book of criticism by John Dizikes the winners will be honoured at an awards ceremony March 10 in manhat Tan. They were selected by the 24 critics writers and editors on the National Book critics Circle s Board of directors. Gaines novel also published by Alfred a. Knopf portrays two Black men. One is unjustly convicted of murder and await ing execution the other is a teacher who helps him face death with dignity. Other books by Gaines include the autobiography of miss Jane Pittman Ancl gathering of old men. Gaines was born near new roads la., and divides his time Between san fran Cisco and his Home state. Lomax s Book documents the stories musicians and listeners behind blues music. Lorna and his father John Lomax built a world famous recorded Archive of Folk songs for the Library of Congress. Alan Lomax has received numerous Grants and honors for his work preserving America s musical heritage including four Guggenheim fellowships. White s biography of playwright Jean Genet was described by the National Book critics Circle As a richly detailed portrait of a morally ambiguous figure. An impressive example of biographical White s other books include forgetting Elena and states of desire travels in Gay America he lives in Paris. Doty s Book of poems is a meditation on life and loss in the Era of aids. It is his third collection after Turtle Swan and Bethlehem in Broad Daylight. He lives in Provincetown mass., and teaches at Sarah Lawrence College and Vermont College. Dizikes Book is described by the critics As a definitive history of opera and its uniquely american he is a fellow of Cowell College University of California at Santa Cruz where h e teaches. His previous books include sportsmen and games men and Britain Roosevelt and the new Deal. Dole expects i a n for health Reform to have new focus Washington a the final healthcare Reform plan will begin to take shape in about two months with the focus on Universal a Cess rather than the Clinton objective of univer Sal coverage Senate minority Leader Robert Dole said sunday. Dole speaking on Abc s meet the press said that president Clinton and Hillary Rodham Clin ton deserve credit for getting the debate started but that they will have to make significant compromises to get a plan passed. But he said three pillars of the Clinton plan medical alliances Price controls on insurance premiums and employer mandates must go. Gunman kills 3, hurts 3 in apartment Bucyrus Ohio a a gunman killed three people and wounded three others inside an apartment Complex sunday night before escaping. Two people were dead at the scene. A girl who was 7or 8 years old died minutes later at Bucyrus Community Hospital spokeswoman Wendy Reid said. A 4-year-old boy and 7-year-old girl were in critical but stable condition and a Man in his Early 20s was hospitalized with gunshot wounds Hospital officials said. -,-,.,- " the shooter stepped inside and started firing Sai Dcharles Gale who works at a restaurant across the Street from the apartment building. 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