Awards Tracker
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Feb. 14, 2011
Books
Jaden Smith will play Little Onion, the young slave who joins John Brown’s team of abolitionists in a film adaptation of James McBride’s “The Good Lord Bird,” Deadline reports.
April 16, 2014
James McBride’s latest novel, “Deacon King Kong,” spins slapstick and quasi-history into social surrealism.
Feb. 28, 2020
National Book Awards go to James McBride, George Packer
Nov. 20, 2013
James McBride takes liberties as he visits the story of white abolitionist John Brown through the eyes of a young slave in ‘The Good Lord Bird.’
Aug. 30, 2013
California
President Bush has chosen James D.
April 23, 1992
James McBride won the 2013 National Book Award for Fiction for “The Good Lord Bird,” a satirical account of pre-Civil War America that features a cross-dressing slave who gets caught up in John Brown’s famous anti-slavery rebellion.
Music
Go figure.
Aug. 18, 1995
‘The Good Lord Bird’ is a twisted take on an abolitionist’s story
Ministry of Gossip
April 7, 2011