Author of "The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother," James McBride
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Reading by James McBride, Author of "The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother"
Q&A with the Author, 4:30 pm, Hollins Room, Wyndham Robertson Library
Reading, 8:15 pm, Niederer Auditorium, Wetherill Visual Arts Center, Hollins University
James McBride is the author of The Color of Water: A Black Man’s Tribute to His White Mother (1995). Read in colleges and high schools nationwide, it has sold more than two million copies and spent two years on the New York Times Bestseller List. His other books include Miracle at St. Anna (2001), which became a Spike Lee film; Song Yet Sung (2008), a national bestseller; and The Good Lord Bird (2013), which won the National Book Award for Fiction. McBride has written for The Boston Globe and The Washington Post and is an award-winning composer and saxophonist.
Funding provided by the Beanstalks Fund and the Dee Hull Everist Visiting Speaker Series.