James McBride

James McBride received the National Book Award for Fiction for The Good Lord Bird. He also won the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award for The Color of Water and the Dayton Literary Peace Prize for Deacon King Kong.

The Good Lord Bird was adapted into a limited television series starring Ethan Hawke. The Color of Water was optioned for a film adaptation.

New readers often begin with The Color of Water, his acclaimed memoir about growing up with a white mother in a Black community. For fiction, The Good Lord Bird or Deacon King Kong are excellent entry points.