The Good Lord Bird
Award History
| Award | Year | Status |
|---|---|---|
| National Book Award for FictionFiction | 2013 | Winner |
About This Book
Henry Shackleford is a young slave living in Kansas in 1856 who is liberated by the abolitionist John Brown and, dressed as a girl, swept up in Brown's violent campaign against slavery, culminating in the raid on Harpers Ferry. Narrated with outrageous comic energy and irreverent wisdom, The Good Lord Bird is a masterpiece of American historical fiction.
About the Author
James McBride is an American author, musician, and journalist. Born in Red Hook, Brooklyn, in 1957, to a Black father and a white Jewish mother, he studied journalism at Oberlin College and Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism. He is the author of the celebrated memoir The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother (1996), which spent over two years on the New York Times bestseller list and has sold more than two million copies. Read more →
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