In November, when it was announced that the slavery-era novel won the prestigious National Book Award For Fiction last year, I joked that, given the then interest in slave-themed films and TV series on both the big and small screens, this had a very good chance of being adapted to film as well. But I was only teasing, as I said. I never really expected it to actually become a reality. Well, it is. On Wednesday night in November 2013, author and screenwriter James McBride (Red Hook Summer, Miracle at St. Anna) was declared fiction category winner at the 2013 National Book Awards ceremony in New York, for his novel The Good Lord Bird - the memoir of a...
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