In an unusual but not unprecedented move, the prize board chose a fourth option after it couldn’t agree on the three ...

The Pulitzer citation called James an “accomplished reconsideration” that illustrates “the absurdity of racial supremacy and ...

Percival Everett’s 2024 novel James continues to earn widespread acclaim. After being named a Booker Prize finalist and ...

James” is a retelling of “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn,” told from the perspective of Jim, an enslaved man determined ...

Everett’s novel was honored at the 2025 awards, along with other books in the categories of fiction, general nonfiction, ...

James,” by Percival Everett won the fiction prize, and Jason Roberts received the biography prize for “Every Living Thing.” ...

Percival Everett has won the 2025 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for James, his retelling of Huckleberry Finn through the eyes of ...

Everett’s novel ‘James’ and Hulls’s graphic memoir ‘Feeding Ghosts’ were among the seven books to receive this year’s ...

Published in March 2024, James also won the Kirkus Prize for Fiction and the National Book Award, and was a finalist for the Booker Prize and the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction.

The Pulitzer Prize Board described James as “an accomplished reconsideration of Huckleberry Finn that gives agency to Jim to ...

Percival Everett’s novel “James,” his radical re-imagining of “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn” from the perspective of ...

Percival Everett's novel 'James,' a reimagining of 'Huckleberry Finn' from the enslaved character's view, won the Pulitzer ...