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James McBride (born September 11, 1957) [1] is an American writer and musician. ... In August 2013, his The Good Lord Bird, a novel, was released by Riverhead Books.
Reading McBride’s inspiring story will make it harder to ostracize or demonize others with similar stories to share." [ 8 ] Paste named the book as one of the one of 2018's 25 most anticipated books, describing it as "informative, heartbreaking and empowering", and "a must-read, offering encouragement while showing that the fight for equality ...
Joseph McBride (born August 9, 1947) is an American film historian, biographer, screenwriter, author and educator. He has written books on a variety of subjects including notable film directors, screenwriting, the JFK assassination, and a memoir of his youth. He also serves as professor in the Cinema Department at San Francisco State University ...
Wiggs's books are frequently named finalists for the RITA Award, the highest honor given in the genre. She received the Romance Writers of America RITA Award for Best Romance of the year in 1993 for Lord of the Night. She won a second RITA in 2000 when The Charm School was named "Favorite Book of the Year."
Midwood Books was an American publishing house active from 1957 to 1968. Its strategy focused on the male readers' market, competing with other publishers such as Beacon Books . The covers of many Midwood Books featured works by prolific illustrators of the era, including Paul Rader.
Trust Exercise received very positive feedback from critics. [5] Sophie Gilbert of The Atlantic wrote, "Trust Exercise is an elaborate trick; it's a meta work of construction and deconstruction, building a persuasive fictional world and then showing you the girders, the scaffolding underneath, and how it's all been welded together."
Susan McCabe received her Ph.D in Literature at UCLA. She has taught at the University of Oregon and Arizona State University . She currently lives in Los Angeles and teaches in the PhD in Creative Writing & Literature program at the University of Southern California.
The Good Lord Bird is a 2013 novel by American journalist and author James McBride about Henry Shackleford, a slave, who unites with John Brown in Brown's abolitionist mission. The novel won the National Book Award for Fiction in 2013 and received generally positive reviews from critics.