James mcbride biography
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About James McBride
James McBride is an award-winning author, musician, and screenwriter. His landmark memoir, The Color of Water, published in , has sold millions of copies and spent more than two years on the New York Times bestseller list. Considered an American classic, it is read in schools and universities across the United States.
His debut novel, Miracle at St. Anna, was turned into a film by Oscar-winning writer and director Spike Lee, with a script written by McBride.
His novel, The Good Lord Bird, about American abolitionist John Brown, won the National Book Award for Fiction and will be a Showtime limited series in fall starring Ethan Hawke.
McBride has been a staff writer for The Boston Globe, People Magazine, and The Washington Post, and his work has appeared in Essence, Rolling Stone, and The New York Times. His National Geographic story “Hip Hop Planet” is considered an important examination of African American music and culture.
A noted musician and composer, M
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For humanizing the complexities of discussing race in amerika. Through writings about his own uniquely American story, and his works of fiction informed by our shared history, his moving stories of love display the character of the American family.
James McBride’s writing career began in his first year at Oberlin College in Ohio, when his spotty academic record had placed him in a course for students who were not ganska ready for undergraduate work. For a writing assignment, he typed up a story about a man who goes to the bathroom, has a heart attack, and dies. “It was a horrible story,” McBride says, laughing, and then guffawing, at the memory. But there was something to the writing.
“You have a touch for this,” Tom Taylor, his teacher, said.
He went on to receive a frikostig arts education and studied jazz with Wendell Logan, Oberlin’s only jazz specialist in those days.
Today, McBride is known as the author of several distinguished books,