A new book unpacks Jim in Mark Twain's "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" — a fictional enslaved Black man who is one of ...

reverses the roles of the main characters in Twain’s “Adventures of Huckleberry Finn,” replacing the narration of the teenaged Huck with that of the slave Jim. Ron Chernow writes books about ...

It also earned six Tony Award nominations last week. WATCH: Percival Everett on his novel retelling ‘Huckleberry Finn’ from Jim’s point of view Everett’s Pulitzer confirmed the million ...

Fiction Everett’s reimagining of “Huckleberry Finn” is a subversive homage to ... In “James,” Everett endows his title character (known as Jim in Twain’s book) with a rich intellectual ...

Beyond the journalism categories, Percival Everett received a Pulitzer for the novel “James,” a reimagining of “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn” through the eyes of the enslaved Jim.

This is a so-called “slave filter” to protect themselves. The Pulitzer Prize Board described James as “an accomplished reconsideration of Huckleberry Finn that gives agency to Jim to illustrate the ...

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American author Percival Everett's novel James, his radical reimagining of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn from the perspective of the enslaved title character, has won the Pulitzer Prize for ...

Percival Everett's novel James, his radical re-imagining of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn from the perspective of the enslaved title character, has won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction.

Everett’s subversive reimagining of “Huckleberry Finn” had already landed critical acclaim and a string of literary honors, including the National Book Award and the Kirkus Prize.