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James McBride
Fiction & Mystery Pavilion
1:30-2 pm
Book Signing
12-1 pm
Award-winning author and accomplished composer/musician James McBride was a journalist for eight years at The Boston Globe, People and The Washington Post before moving to New York to pursue music. He wrote the critically acclaimed New York Times best-selling memoir The Color of Water (1996) while working as a tenor saxophonist for the legendary Little Jimmy Scott. His book awards include the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award and the ALA Notable Book of the Year Award. His latest book is Song Yet Sung (Penguin/Riverhead Books, 2008). He lives in Pennsylvania and New York, where he is currently Distinguished Writer in Residence at New York University.
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