Among the prizes’ high-profile nominees were novelist Percival Everett for fiction and actors Andrew Garfield, Cynthia Erivo and Adam Scott in the audiobook category. Poet Amanda Gorman ...

Percival Everett’s novel James, a reimagining of Mark Twain’s Adventures of Huckleberry Finn from the perspective of Jim, the escaped slave, has landed another award, and a big one at that ...

Chernow’s Mark Twain would not regard the newly crowned Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, Percival Everett’s “James” — a reimagination of “Huck Finn” that centers the enslaved man rather ...

South Pasadena novelist and USC professor Percival Everett won the 2025 Pulitzer Prize for fiction Monday for his 24th novel, “James.” Published in March 2024 to widespread critical acclaim ...