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Percival Everett wins 2025 Pulitzer Prize for fiction for Mark Twain-inspired novel James
The Pulitzer citation called James an “accomplished reconsideration” that illustrates “the absurdity of racial supremacy and ...
South Pasadena’s Percival Everett, a USC professor, wins Pulitzer for ‘James’
James” is a retelling of “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn,” told from the perspective of Jim, an enslaved man determined ...
Novelist Percival Everett Wins 2025 Pulitzer Prize For ‘James'
Percival Everett’s 2024 novel James continues to earn widespread acclaim. After being named a Booker Prize finalist and ...
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Pulitzer Fiction Prize winner divides avid readers from 'well-deserved' praise to 'overrated' diss
Percival Everett won the award for fiction for his novel James, which has left many literature fans divided over whether it ...
Novelist Percival Everett and playwright Branden Jacobs-Jenkins among Pulitzer winners in the arts
Percival Everett’s novel “James,” his radical re-imagining of “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn” from the perspective of ...
Steppenwolf Theatre play ‘Purpose’ wins the Pulitzer Prize for drama
“Purpose,” a play by Branden Jacobs-Jenkins that was commissioned by Chicago’s Steppenwolf Theatre Company, has won the 2025 ...
‘James’ wins the Pulitzer Prize for fiction
Everett’s novel was honored at the 2025 awards, along with other books in the categories of fiction, general nonfiction, ...
Reuters wins Pulitzer for fentanyl investigation; New York Times takes four prizes
Reuters won the Pulitzer Prize in investigative reporting on Monday for a series of stories that penetrated the international ...