Deacon King Kong
Award History
| Award | Year | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Anisfield-Wolf Book Award – Fiction | 2021 | Winner |
About This Book
In 1969, in a Brooklyn housing project, an old deacon known as Sportcoat shoots the local drug dealer in broad daylight in front of witnesses—and then seems not to remember doing it. The shooting sets off a series of events involving every layer of the project's multiracial community. A warm, funny, compassionate novel about community, memory, and the unlikely bonds that hold people together. Winner of the National Book Award and the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award for Fiction.
About the Author
James McBride is an American author, musician, and journalist. Born in Red Hook, Brooklyn, in 1957, to a Black father and a white Jewish mother, he studied journalism at Oberlin College and Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism. He is the author of the celebrated memoir The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother (1996), which spent over two years on the New York Times bestseller list and has sold more than two million copies. Read more →
