National Book Award-winning novelist James McBride (pictured, via) has been declared the recipient of this year’s Best of Brooklyn, Inc. (BoBi) Award.
McBride appeared at this year’s Brooklyn Book Festival for a conversation event with The Wire TV series actor Wendell Pierce.
Past BoBi winners include The Giver author Lois Lowry, journalist Pete Hamill, and Pulitzer Prize winner Jhumpa Lahiri.