Percival Everett talks about winning the National Book Award for his book James, discusses how a game of tennis inspired him ...

Percival Everett’s new novel, “James,” a retelling of “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn” from the perspective of Huck’s ...

Percival Everett's reimagining of Mark Twain’s 'The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn' just won the $10,000 National Book Award ...

(As the character of Percival Everett, professor of nonsense, in I Am Not Sidney Poitier puts it, “People … are worse than anybody.”) And yet at the heart of the book are James’s powerful ...

Percival Everett’s “James" won the National Book Award for fiction. For nonfiction, Jason De León’s “Soldiers and Kings: ...

The following Q&A, which has been edited for length and clarity, is from our March interview with the author, published here ...

Everett, a Brown University alum, was joined by winners in nonfiction, poetry, books in translation, and books for children.

American author Percival Everett's James, a daring reworking of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, has won the National Book ...

Percival Everett's “James,” a daring reworking of “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn,” has won the National Book Award for fiction. Jason De León’s “Soldiers and Kings: Survival and ...

Everett’s reimagining of “Huck Finn” was among the big winners at a ceremony in New York that featured several politically ...

Percival Everett won the National Book Award for fiction on Wednesday for his novel "James," a propulsive and slyly funny ...

James is a retelling of Mark Twain’s Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn from the perspective of Huck’s companion, an enslaved man ...