Everett pulls off a masterly linguistic confection, in which enslaved people use Black English only as a wary affectation.

Everett gives James the gift of language, and James writes his account of his travels with a stolen pencil stub—one which ...

Everett's acclaimed reworking of Mark Twain's "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" from the perspective ... perspective from the eyes of a classic character,” Allison Escoto, chair of the ...

On Sunday, the American Library Association announced that Everett's “James” was this year's winner of the Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction, which includes a $5,000 cash award. Kevin Fedarko's ...

At Two River Theater, discover how changing the gender of characters in well-known plays and movies ... who tells the story ...

For author Percival Everett, libraries have long been a source of knowledge and discovery and pleasure, even of the forbidden kind.

Read in classrooms from coast to coast, "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" is, at its core ... Hercule Poirot is one of the most memorable characters of modern literature, brought to life ...

he appears as a scruffy urchin in a Huck Finn cap and battered jacket, hunching his wiry shoulders as if steeling himself against bitter winds, or perhaps building his nerve to take on the world.