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 has won the National Book Award for fiction for his novel “James,” a reimagining of Mark Twain’s “Adventures ...

Percival Everett has won the National Book Award for Fiction for his novel “James,” a retelling of Mark Twain’s classic ...

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

Jason De León received the nonfiction award for “Soldiers and Kings: Survival and Hope in the World of Human Smuggling.” ...

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

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

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

The 75th National Book Awards celebrated with a ceremony, comedy from Kate McKinnon and music from Jon Batiste. Percival ...

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