I felt creatively free to do what I wanted to do. I’ve already demonstrated that I can write to the satisfaction of my peers and colleagues on the business side. “I never thought I’d win a National Book Award, you know,” he says. Following up a major award winner would cause anxiety in some, but not for McBride. McBride’s third novel, 2013’s The Good Lord Bird, won the National Book Award in fiction. Following a short story collection and a well-received biography of James Brown, Deacon King Kong marks McBride’s return to the novel. Since then, he’s worked in multiple genres and formats to explore race, love, loss and the basic human threads that unite us all. He first captured our hearts and minds with his 1995 memoir, The Color of Water: A Black Man’s Tribute to His White Mother. James McBride is one of America’s foremost storytellers, a contemporary urban griot whose works offer nuanced portrayals of America’s complex cultural landscape.
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