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Learn about James McBride, the award-winning author of The Color of Water, The Good Lord Bird, and more. Explore his novels, memoirs, songs, and screenplays that explore the themes of identity, history, and humanity.
Learn about James McBride, an award-winning author of The Color of Water and The Good Lord Bird, a musician who toured with Jimmy Scott, and a screenwriter for Spike Lee. Find out his biography, achievements, and upcoming projects.
James McBride, a black musician and writer, explores his mother's hidden past as a white Jewish refugee from the South. He reveals how she overcame racism, abuse, and poverty to raise 11 children in Brooklyn.
James McBride is the author of bestselling books such as The Color of Water, Deacon King Kong, and Five-Carat Soul. His novels explore themes of race, identity, history, and community in America and beyond.
Exciting new fiction from James McBride, the first since his National Book Award–winning novel The Good Lord Bird. The stories in Five-Carat Soul —none of them ever published before—spring from the place where identity, humanity, and history converge.
A novel about secrets and community in a small town, where a skeleton in a well and a deaf boy challenge the status quo. James McBride, author of Deacon King Kong and The Good Lord Bird, explores the themes of love, justice and identity in The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store.
Aug 4, 2013 · The Good Lord Bird is a novel by James McBride, a musician and author who explores the history of America's color line. The novel tells the story of a young slave who disguises himself as a girl and joins abolitionist John Brown's raid on Harpers Ferry.
To book James McBride for an event, contact his speakers bureau. American Program Bureau, Inc 313 Washington Street, Suite 225 Newton, MA 02458 (617) 614-1600 Visit APB’s speakers bureau contact page to request James McBride’s availability. Learn more about his speaking topics by visiting James McBride’s speaker profile.
This CD is about the lives of “ordinary” jazz musicians, those who play the music, who love it, who make great sacrifices in order to live the jazz life and keep the music alive.
Song Yet Sung is a historical fiction novel by James McBride that explores the themes of racism, courage, and miracles in two different historical settings: Italy in 1944 and Maryland in the 1850s. The novel follows the stories of four black U.S. soldiers, an Italian orphan boy, and a runaway slave who face danger and prejudice in their quests for survival and freedom.
