![]() MCBRIDE: And I just I started reading the first page and couldn't stop. When I say dog-eared, I mean a dog probably had a go at it, you know. And that first copy was a dog-eared book. ![]() ![]() Yeah, I grew up in a house of 12 kids, you know, and so we had books all over the place. SIMON: Do you remember that first copy of "Mockingbird" that you read? JAMES MCBRIDE (Author Jazz musician): Delighted to be here. ![]() He joins us from member station WHYY in Philadelphia. McBride is the author of the bestselling memoir "The Color of Water," and novels including "Song Yet Sung," as well as a composer and jazz musician. The book has informed and inspired more than two generations of Americans: including writers, artists and activists, among them, James McBride. Harper Lee's novel still sells nearly a million copies every year and has possibly become what amounts to the great American novel of the 20th century, telling a story of the South before the modern civil rights movement through the eyes of a small girl, an innocent man who's wrongly charged, a mysterious stranger next door and a simple country lawyer and father who embodies true American nobility. ![]() "To Kill A Mockingbird" is 50 years old this weekend. ![]()
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