James McBride



James McBride

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gender male
place of birth New York, United States
website http://www.jamesmcbride.com
genre Biographies & Memoirs

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 American musi...more

books by James McBride

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avg rating: 3.99 | 5365 ratings | 7 distinct works
The Color of Water: A Black Ma... The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother (Paperback)
by James McBride
avg rating 4.00 — 4585 ratings — published 1997
22 editions
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Song Yet Sung Song Yet Sung (Hardcover)
by James McBride
avg rating 4.01 — 206 ratings — published 2008
3 editions
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Miracle at St. Anna Miracle at St. Anna (Paperback)
by James McBride
avg rating 3.75 — 104 ratings — published 2003
10 editions
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Family: A Celebration of Human... Family: A Celebration of Humanity (M.I.L.K.)
by MILK Project, James McBride
avg rating 4.67 — 3 ratings — published 2001
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War, Battering, and Other Spor... War, Battering, and Other Sports: The Gulf Between American Men and Women (Religion/Society/Society/Religion)
by James McBride
avg rating 0.00 — 0 ratings — published 1995
2 editions
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Real World Macro: A Macroecono... Real World Macro: A Macroeconomics Reader from Dollars & Sense, 24th edition (Perfect Paperback)
by Daniel Fireside, James McBride, John Miller
avg rating 0.00 — 0 ratings — published 2007
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Buffalo soldier Buffalo soldier (Paperback)
by James McBride
avg rating 0.00 — 0 ratings — published 2003
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quotes by James McBride

"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)
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"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)
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"The greatest gift that anyone can give anyone is LIFE. And the greatest sin a person can do is to take away that life. NEXT to that, all rules and religions in the worldare secondary, mere words and beliefs that people CHOOSE to believe and KILL and HATE by."
James McBride (The Color of Water 10th Anniversary Edition)
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