Percival L. Everett
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Percival L. Everett

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PERCIVAL EVERETT is a Distinguished Professor of English at USC and the author of Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award winner James. His other most recent books include Dr. No (finalist for the NBCC Award for Fiction and winner of the PEN/Jean Stein Book Award), The Trees (finalist for the Booker Prize and the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction), Telephone (finalist for the Pulitzer Prize), So Much Blue, Erasure, and I Am Not Sidney Poitier. He has received the NBCC Ivan Sandrof Life Achievement Award, The Windham Campbell Prize from Yale University, and the Stowe Prize for Literary Activism. American Fiction, the feature film based on his novel Erasure, was released in 2023 and was awarded the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay. He lives in Los Angeles with his wife, the writer Danzy Senna, and their children.
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In James, Percival Everett reimagines Mark Twain's Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by focusing on Jim, an escaped slave. A secondary character seen only through Huck's perspective in Twain’s original, Jim becomes a central and complex character in Everett's narrative. While revealing Jim's inner world, this acclaimed novel redefines the classic.

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