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 […] ...

THE COLOR OF LOVE BLACK AUTHOR JAMES MCBRIDE AND HIS WHITE MOM TALK ABOUT LIFE TOGETHER AND THEIR BATTLES ... Her father was a bully and disregarded his crippled wife and three children.

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.