Age Group:
Adults 18+Program Description
Event Details
Join us for this very special Zoom event with James McBride, an award-winning author, musician, and screenwriter. His landmark memoir, The Color of Water, was published in 1996 and is considered an American classic. His 2013 novel, The Good Lord Bird, won the National Book Award for Fiction and was adapted into a Showtime series. His latest, The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store, was named one of the NYTimes’ 100 Notable Books of 2023. In 2016, President Obama awarded McBride the National Humanities Medal "for humanizing the complexities of discussing race in America.
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