James McBride on the complicated history of race in the United States

Writers and Company

English - February 25, 2024 05:10 - 52 minutes - 48.4 MB - ★★★★★ - 182 ratings
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American novelist and musician James McBride is best known for his bestselling memoir, The Color of Water – about his immigrant Jewish mother and Black American father. In 2013, McBride won the National Book Award for his novel The Good Lord Bird - an irreverent portrayal of abolitionist John Brown. Eleanor Wachtel’s conversation with James McBride about these two books, and his life, first aired in 2014.