Discuss Ruth's Summer Visits to New York City

Discuss Ruth's Summer Visits to New York City

In The Color of Water, author James McBride writes both his autobiography and a tribute to the life of his mother, Ruth McBride. Ruth Fainlight was born in New York on May 2, 1931, the daughter of a British father and an American mother with Russian-Jewish ancestry. In 1946 she settled in England, where she studied at colleges of art in Birmingham and Brighton. She married the writer Alan Sillitoe in 1959. Ruth first married Andrew Dennis McBride, a black man from North Carolina. James's childhood was ...