Biography

James McBride’s memoir The Color of Water is regarded as an American classic and is required reading in high schools and colleges across the United States. It spent more than two years on The New York Times bestseller list, is published in more than 16 languages and has sold more than two million copies worldwide. A perennial favourite of book clubs and community-wide reading events, The Color of Water is the story of McBride’s widowed, white, Jewish mother who raised 12 black children in New York City and sent all to college and most to graduate school.

Directed by Spike Lee, the film adaptation of his 2002 novel Miracle at St. Anna – the story of a friendship between a black soldier and an Italian boy in Tuscany during World War II – is slated to open 26 September 2008.

James McBride is a former staff writer for The Washington Post, The Boston Globe and People magazine. His work has 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 music and culture. James 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 and lives in both Pennsylvania and New York.  

www.jamesmcbride.com

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Bibliography

The Color of water

Song Yet Sung

Miracle At St. Anna