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Percival Everett wins 2025 Pulitzer Prize for fiction

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 provide a new take on the search for family and freedom.”

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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 winning both the Kirkus Prize and the National Book Award for Fiction, Everett has added the 2025 Pulitzer Prize.

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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 to reunite with his family.

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There Was a Quirk in This Year's Pulitzer Fiction Process

Pulitzer Prize watchers might have expected Percival Everett's James to take top honors, considering the Huckleberry Finn reimagining had already nabbed the National Book Award and the Kirkus Prize ...

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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 ...

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