Everett, an English professor in California, dared to re-write “Huckleberry Finn” to focus upon Jim, rather than upon Huckleberry. In one sobering scene, Everett places Jim, or James ...

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 of Jim, Huck Finn's enslaved companion, has already received the National Book Award and 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 ...

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

Goddard's book also will be available for $20. On Tuesday, Feb. 11, the Fortune Book Club is reading "James" by Percival ...

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