Join us on Zoom for an event with James McBride, award-winning author, musician, and screenwriter.
James McBride is 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. The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store, his latest book, was named one of The New York Times’ 100 Notable Books of 2023.
In 2016, President Obama awarded McBride the National Humanities Medal "for humanizing the complexities of discussing race in America. Through writings about his own uniquely American story, and his works of fiction informed by our shared history, his moving stories of love display the character of the American family." In 2024 he became the latest recipient of the Library of Congress Prize for American Fiction.
McBride will be joined in conversation with Heather Marie-Montlilla of PBS Books.
Join us on Zoom.
This event is made possible by Illinois Libraries Present (ILP), a statewide collaboration among public libraries offering premier events. ILP is funded in part by a grant awarded by the Illinois State Library, a department of the Office of Secretary of State, using funds provided by the U.S. Institute of Museum and Library Services, under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act (LSTA).
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