Literary Evenings – James McBride
Sept. 22
Literary Evenings – James McBride
Pittsburgh Arts & Lectures announces the appearance of New York Times bestselling author James McBride at 7:30 p.m. Sept. 22 in the Carnegie Music Hall in Oakland.
McBride’s lecture is the first in the 2014-15 season of Literary Evenings, Monday Night Lecture Series.
James McBride is author of the 2013 National Book Award winning novel “The Good Lord Bird,” and well as the New York Times bestseller “The Color of Water: A Black Man’s Tribute To His White Mother.” McBride is currently a Distinguished Writer in Residence at New York University and holds a masters in journalism from Columbia University.
McBride’s talk will focus on his life and “The Good Lord Bird.” The story is humorously narrated by an elderly Henry Shackleford, as he reminisced about his youthful adventures. In 1856, Shackleford was a slave boy living in the Kansas Territory, but after being forced to join John Brown’s abolitionist army, he posed as a girl to survive.
Tickets at $15-$35 are available online at www.pittsburghlectures.org, by phone at 412-622-8866, or at the Carnegie Music Hall Box Office on the night of the program. Doors open at 6:30 p.m. Student tickets are $10 each with ID.