James McBride
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born
September 11, 1957
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male
place of birth
Red Hook, Brooklyn, New York, The United States
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Biographies & Memoirs, Nonfiction
about this author
James McBride is a native New Yorker and a graduate of New York City public schools. He studied composition at The Oberlin Conservatory of Music in Ohio and received his Masters in Journalism from Columbia University in New York at age 22. He holds several honorary doctorates and is currently a Distinguished Writer in Residence at New York University. He is married with three children. He lives in Pennsylvania and New York.
James McBride is a former staff writer for The Washington Post, People Magazine, and The Boston Globe. His work has also appeared in Essence, Rolling Stone, and The New York Times. His April, 2007 National Geographic story entitled “Hip Hop Planet” is considered a respected treatise on African Ameri...more
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"It was always so hot, and everyone was so polite, and everything was all surface but underneath it was like a bomb waiting to go off. I always felt that way about the South, that beneath the smiles and southern hospitality and politeness were a lot of guns and liquor and secrets."
— James McBride (The Color of Water 10th Anniversary Edition)
— James McBride (The Color of Water 10th Anniversary Edition)
"God is the color of water. Water doesn't have a color."
— James McBride (The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother)
— James McBride (The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother)
"Sometimes it seemed like the truth was a bandy-legged soul who dashed from one side of the world to the other and I could never find him."
— James McBride (The Color of Water 10th Anniversary Edition)
— James McBride (The Color of Water 10th Anniversary Edition)
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