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ILP: An Evening with James McBride

Tue, Feb 04

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ILP: An Evening with James McBride
ILP: An Evening with James McBride

Time & Location

Feb 04, 2025, 7:00 PM – 8:30 PM

Virtual Event on Zoom

About the Event

Illinois Libraries Present James McBride, an award-winning author, musician, and screenwriter. His landmark memoir, The Color of Water, was published in 1996 and is considered an American classic, read in schools and universities across the United States. His 2013 novel, The Good Lord Bird, won the National Book Award for Fiction and was adapted by Ethan Hawke and Jason Blum into a Showtime series bearing the same name. His latest, The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store, was named one of the New York Times’ 100 Notable Books of 2023. In 2016, President Obama awarded McBride the National Humanities Medal "for humanizing the complexities of discussing race in America. Through writings about his own uniquely American story, and his works of fiction informed by our shared history, his moving stories of love display the character of the American family." In 2024 he became the latest recipient of the Library of Congress Prize for American Fiction.…


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Address

Ashland Location

125 W Editor St,

Ashland, IL

62612

217-476-3417 

Pleasant Plains Location

555 Buckeye Rd, Pleasant Plains, IL

62677

217-626-1553 

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Opening Hours

Ashland Location

Mon, Wed, Thu, Fri: 9am - 5pm

Tuesday: 9am - 7pm

​​Saturday: 10am - 1pm

​Sunday: Closed

Pleasant Plains Location

Mon, Tues, Wed, Fri: 9am - 5pm

Thursday: 9am - 7pm

​​Saturday: 10am - 1pm

​Sunday: Closed

Dropbox Locations

Farmingdale Elementary School

2473 N Farmingdale Rd,

Pleasant Plains, IL

62677

Gardner Township Hall

1266 N Bradfordton Rd,

Springfield, IL

62711

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