Evelyn J. McBride of Allentown married James McBride in 1988 and had two children with him. The couple separated, she said, about 1991. She said McBride, 42, never mentioned […] ...

McBride's storyline then bends backwards to 1925, when a Jewish theater manager named Moshe Ludlow and his wife, Chona, are living above the Heaven & Earth Grocery Store which she runs.

The National Book Award-winning author James McBride has a new novel out, "The Heaven and Earth Grocery Store." Like much of McBride’s work, it’s rooted in race, religion and personal history.

MCBRIDE: I was always fascinated with the idea about how these kids who are, quote-unquote, "disabled" end up in insane asylums in the early times, in the '20s, '30s, '40s and '50s and so forth.

McBride grew up in Red Hook, Brooklyn, the eighth of 12 children. “The Color of Water” tells the story of how his mother, who immigrated from Poland and was the daughter of an Orthodox rabbi ...

If you’ve read James McBride’s bestselling 1995 memoir “The Color of Water: A Black Man’s Tribute to His White Mother,” you have met McBride’s grandmother, Hudis Shilsky.He described ...