JAMES MCBRIDE ON THE HEAVEN & EARTH GROCERY STORE

JAMES MCBRIDE is the author of the bestseller Deacon King Kong: A Novel, the National Book Award-winning The Good Lord Bird: A Novel, The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother, Song Yet Sung: A Novel, and Miracle at St. Anna, as well as the story collection Five-Carat Soul, and Kill' Em and Leave: Searching for James Brown and the American Soul. His latest book is The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store: A Novel (Riverhead Books).

TAMEKA BRADLEY HOBBS, PH.D., is the library regional manager of Broward County Library’s African American Research Library and Cultural Center, located in Fort Lauderdale. She has also worked as a researcher, writer, consultant, and director for a number of public and oral history projects. Her book, Democracy Abroad, Lynching at Home: Racial Violence in Florida, was published by University Press of Florida and honored with a bronze Florida Book Award for Florida Nonfiction in 2015, and a Harry T. and Harriette V. Moore Award from the Florida Historical Society in 2016.