James McBride (1) (1957–)
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James McBride studied composition at The Oberlin Conservatory of Music in Ohio and received a master's degree in journalism from Columbia University. He was a staff writer for The Boston Globe, People Magazine, and The Washington Post. His works include the memoir The Color of Water, the biography visa mer Kill 'Em and Leave, and two novels entitled Miracle at St. Anna and Song Yet Sung. He wrote the screenplay for Miracle at St. Anna when it was made into a movie in 2008. He won the National Book Award for The Good Lord Bird. He is a saxophonist and former sideman for jazz legend Jimmy Scott. He has written songs for Anita Baker, Grover Washington Jr., Gary Burton, and Barney, the PBS television character. He received the Stephen Sondheim Award and the Richard Rodgers Foundation Horizon Award for his musical Bo-Bos co-written with playwright Ed Shockley. In 2005, he published the first volume of a CD-based documentary about life as lived by low-profile jazz musicians entitled The Process. He is currently a Distinguished Writer in Residence at New York University. (Bowker Author Biography) visa färre
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- Födelsedag
- 1957-09-11
- Kön
- male
- Nationalitet
- USA
- Födelseort
- New York, New York, USA
- Utbildning
- Oberlin College
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audiobook from the library - hold expired before I could finish. It was okay but kind of long, didn't bother me a ton that I didn't finish it.
This book has more characters than the Chinese alphabet. What a ride! Who knew that so many characters could be fully formed, all within 350 pages? A great story and a great read.
This book is essentially two memoirs in one - both the author's and his mother's.
Some very sad moments, as well as funny stories, are recounted. I found it really interesting how scared McBride was for his white mother's safety, when he was growing up.
The ending was a little anticlimactic and disappointing, though I can't quite put my finger on the reason for that.
There was some profanity and a couple of vulgar comments that I really wish had been edited out.
Some very sad moments, as well as funny stories, are recounted. I found it really interesting how scared McBride was for his white mother's safety, when he was growing up.
The ending was a little anticlimactic and disappointing, though I can't quite put my finger on the reason for that.
There was some profanity and a couple of vulgar comments that I really wish had been edited out.
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A 2013 novel by James McBride about Henry Shackleford, an enslaved person, who unites with John Brown in Brown's abolitionist mission. The novel won the National Book Award for Fiction in 2013 and received generally positive reviews from critics.
Plot
The memoirs of Henry Shackleford, an enslaved person in Kansas during the Bleeding Kansas era, are discovered in a Delaware church. Henry, nicknamed "Little Onion" for eating a particularly rancid onion, accidentally encounters abolitionist John Brown in a tavern. Brown mistakes Henry for a girl and gives him a dress to wear; Shackleford wears a dress for much of the novel. The two join together, and Henry narrates his encounters with Frederick Douglass, Harriet Tubman, and the events at John Brown's raid on Harpers Ferry. The book is narrated in the first person through Henry.
From Me: If McBride's history is anywhere near accurate, then this is a tragic tale indeed. Moving. Memorable.… (mer)