James’ father was a black minister, married to Ruth, a woman in denial of her White heritage. James McBride, a thriving black journalist, and musician prods into his mother’s past as well as explores his heritage and upbringing, growing up in a predominantly black society, yet expected to succeed and thrive in a professional setting. Ruth McBride Jordan struggles with racial identity and prefers to use the term “light-skinned” woman is dedicated and steadfastly loves all her twelve black children. He also explains his haunting rumination on racial identity and an emotional written rendition from his mother. He touches readers with a dramatic description of growing up as a black kid born of a white mother. James McBride narrates his life as a young man from his mother’s perspective and his own viewpoint in this novel. He also won the National Book award for the book, The Good Lord Bird in 2013. McBride has received various music awards as a composer such as the Richard Rodgers Foundation Horizon Award and the Stephen Sondheim Award.
He also plays the saxophone, and he performed with the legendary jazz maestro Little Jimmy Scott.
McBride has written musical lyrics for notable artists like Anita Baker, Gary Burton, and other famous musicians. He also wrote for the National Geographic about a featured story titled Hip Hop Planet in April 2007. He lives between his two homes in New York and Pennsylvania with his wife and three children.īefore taking up a full-time novel-writing career, James McBride wrote for The Boston Globe, and The Washington Post, among other notable Magazines in the US. McBride holds honorary doctorates and works as a renowned resident author at the New York University. He studied music in Ohio’s Oberlin Conservatory music school and went on to graduate further with an MA in Journalism from Columbia University, New York. Ames McBride was born in Brooklyn, New York, where he attended city public schools.
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