James McBride
About James McBride
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Inspire to Live: A Lecture/Performance on Learning to Fail
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James McBride Adapting 'Deacon King Kong' for TV
Global content company Sister will develop the series alongside the award-winning and best-selling author.
James McBride On The Kindness That Shaped Him: 'Emphasize ...
McBride's novel, Deacon King Kong, takes place in 1969, in a Brooklyn housing project similar to the one he grew up in. "In this book and in this community, ...
Books by James McBride
“The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store: A Novel” (2023)
The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store: A Novel
“Deacon King Kong: A Novel” (2020)
From James McBride, author of the National Book Award-winning The Good Lord Bird, comes a wise and witty novel about what happens to the witnesses of a shooting.
“The Good Lord Bird: A Novel” (2013)
From the bestselling author of The Color of Water, Song Yet Sung, Five-Carat Soul, and Kill 'Em and Leave, a James Brown biography, comes the story of a young boy born a slave who joins John Brown’s antislavery crusade—and who must pass as a girl to survive.
“Song Yet Sung” (2009)
In the days before the Civil War, a runaway slave named Liz Spocott breaks free from her captors and escapes into the labyrinthine swamps of Maryland’s eastern shore, setting loose a drama of violence and hope among slave catchers, plantation owners, watermen, runaway slaves, and free blacks. Liz is near death, wracked by disturbing visions of the future, and armed with “the Code,” a fiercely guarded cryptic means of communication for slaves on the run. Liz’s flight and her dreams of tomorrow will thrust all those near her toward a mysterious, redemptive fate.
“Miracle at St. Anna (Movie Tie-in)” (2008)
Four soldiers from the army's Negro 92nd Division find themselves separated from their unit and behind enemy lines. Risking their lives for a country in which they are treated with less respect than the enemy they are fighting, they discover humanity in the small Tuscan village of St. Anna di Stazzema.
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