![]() ![]() ![]() Now McBride has a new novel called "Deacon King Kong" that takes place in 1969 in a Brooklyn housing project similar to the one McBride grew up in. Anna," about a black soldier in Italy during World War II. Spike Lee adapted McBride's World War II novel, "Miracle At St. It won the 2013 National Book Award for fiction and has been adapted into a new series starring Ethan Hawke that's scheduled to premiere later this year on Showtime. McBride's novel "The Good Lord Bird," set just before the Civil War, is about a young boy who joins John Brown's abolitionist crusade. In 2016, President Obama presented McBride with the National Humanities Medal for, quote, "humanizing the complexities of discussing race in America." When McBride was a teenager, he discovered his mother was Jewish, the daughter of an Orthodox rabbi. He's the son of a white mother and an African American father who died shortly before McBride was born. My guest today, James McBride, first became known for his memoir, "The Color Of Water," about growing up in a Brooklyn housing project. I'm Terry Gross back from vacation, and I want to thank Dave Davies for hosting last week. ![]()
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