# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/james-mcbride
# Generated: 2026-08-13T02:06:08.532Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/james-mcbride"
name: "James McBride"
slug: "james-mcbride"
description: "James McBride is an American writer and musician. He is the recipient of the 2013 National Book Award for Fiction for his novel The Good Lord Bird."
tagline: "American writer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/NBF2024-james-mcbride.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Journalists"
  slug: "journalists"
profileType:
  name: "Journalist"
  slug: "journalist"
birthDate: "1957-09-11"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           51.32
  momentum:             0.9216007615076214
  historical:           13.15797333333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     70
  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2678286/"
    handle:    "nm2678286"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.jamesmcbride.com/index.php"
sources:
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    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://af.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_McBride"
    title: "James McBride"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D9%8A%D9%85%D8%B3_%D9%85%D8%A7%D9%83%D8%A8%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%8A%D8%AF_(%D9%83%D8%A7%D8%AA%D8%A8)"
    title: "جيمس ماكبرايد (كاتب)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D9%8A%D9%85%D8%B3_%D9%85%D8%A7%D9%83%D8%A8%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%8A%D8%AF"
    title: "جيمس ماكبرايد"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://bg.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%94%D0%B6%D0%B5%D0%B9%D0%BC%D1%81_%D0%9C%D0%B0%D0%BA%D0%B1%D1%80%D0%B0%D0%B9%D0%B4"
    title: "Джеймс Макбрайд"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ckb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%DB%95%DB%8C%D9%85%D8%B2_%D9%85%DB%95%DA%A9%D8%A8%D8%B1%D8%A7%DB%8C%D8%AF_(%D9%86%D9%88%D9%88%D8%B3%DB%95%D8%B1)"
    title: "جەیمز مەکبراید (نووسەر)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_McBride_(Autor)"
    title: "James McBride (Autor)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_McBride_(writer)"
    title: "James McBride (writer)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_McBride"
    title: "James McBride"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_McBride"
    title: "James McBride"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%92'%D7%99%D7%99%D7%9E%D7%A1_%D7%9E%D7%A7%D7%91%D7%A8%D7%99%D7%99%D7%93"
    title: "ג'יימס מקברייד"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_McBride_(%C3%ADr%C3%B3)"
    title: "James McBride (író)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_McBride"
    title: "James McBride"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_McBride"
    title: "James McBride"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/James_McBride_(writer)"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2892695"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/4705752"
    title: "James McBride"
    type:  "DATABASE"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump