James McBride is an accomplished musician and the author of the National Book Award-winning novel The Good Lord Bird, the bestselling American classic The Color of Water, the novels Song Yet Sung, Miracle at St. Anna, and Deacon King Kong, the story collection Five-Carat Soul, and Kill 'Em and Leave, a biography of James Brown. The recipient of a National Humanities Medal, McBride is also a Distinguished Writer in Residence at New York University.
Praise for The Miracle at St. Anna McBride creates an intricate mosaic of narratives that ultimately becomes about betrayal and the complex moral landscape of war. --The New York Times Book Review Full of miracles of friendship, of salvation and survival. --Los Angeles Times Searingly, soaringly beautiful...The book's central theme, its essence, is a celebration of the human capacity for love. --The Baltimore Sun A haunting meditation on faith that is also a crack military thriller. --Entertainment Weekly An outstanding novel about World War II inspired by the famous Buffalo Soldiers...so descriptive that I feel as though I'm an eyewitness to everything that happens emotionally on the frontline. --The Dallas Morning News A miracle in its own right...McBride's prose is stunning. His ability to bring to life an actual historical event (the massacre at St. Anna and the famed Buffalo Soldiers of the 92nd Division) is a gift. --Rocky Mountain News Sweetly compelling... McBride combines elements of history, mythology and magical realism to make this a story about the little things like life and forgiveness and shared experience. --Atlanta Journal Constitution Riveting. --Newsday