President Donald Trump’s sweeping immigration agenda — including a pledge to deport 20 million people — is sowing fear and ...

James by Percival Everett is a retelling of Mark Twain's seminal novel The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn from the point of view of Jim, an enslaved man on the run. James by Percival Everett won ...

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He deeply researches the worlds in which his novels are set ... With his latest, James, a reimagining of Huckleberry Finn told from the perspective of the escaped slave Jim—who drops his ...

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On Sunday, the American Library Association announced that Everett's “James” was this year's winner of the Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction, which includes a $5,000 cash award. Kevin Fedarko's ...

For author Percival Everett, libraries have long been a source of knowledge and discovery and pleasure, even of the forbidden kind. "I remember making friends at age 13 with the librarian at the ...

“James,” one of the five best fictions books last year. Everett, an English professor in California, dared to re-write “Huckleberry Finn” to focus upon Jim, rather than upon Huckleberr ...

Percival Everett’s “James” is up for another literary award — the PEN/Faulkner Prize for fiction. Other nominees include Louise Erdrich’s “The Mighty ...