In his latest book, “James,” author Percival Everett retells the story of Mark Twain’s “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn,” refocusing the narrative on Jim, the novel’s enslaved main character.

Renowned author Percival Everett’s celebrated new novel James (2024) reimagines the escape of the enslaved character “Jim” from Mark Twain’s (Samuel Clemens) canonical American classic, Adventures of ...

Percival Everett has won the National Book Award for fiction for his novel “James,” a reimagining of Mark Twain’s “Adventures of Huckleberry Finn” from the point of view of the enslaved character Jim.

Percival Everett’s newest novel reimagines “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn” from the perspective of the enslaved character, Jim. Everett joins Washington Post Live to talk about "James,” ...

Last month, author Percival Everett put on a tuxedo to attend the Academy Awards with his wife, novelist Danzy Senna. First-time filmmaker Cord Jefferson, who adapted Everett’s 2001 novel “Erasure” to ...

MR. CAPEHART: Good afternoon, and welcome to Washington Post Live and another in our series, “Race in America,” co-produced with the “Capehart” podcast. I am Jonathan Capehart, associate editor at The ...

Acclaimed novelist Percival Everett will step onto the stage of the Quarry Amphitheater at UC Santa Cruz next month for a highly anticipated conversation with Professor Vilashini Cooppan as part of ...

NEW YORK (AP) — 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 ...

After seeing Cord Jefferson win the Adapted Screenplay Oscar for his work on American Fiction, the widely acclaimed adaptation of his 2001 novel Erasure, author Percival Everett has set up his latest ...