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

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 and was a Booker Prize finalist. But as the New York Times reports via three unnamed sources, it wasn't a straightforward...

Percival Everett’s “James” Wins a Pulitzer

The writer and National Book Award winner on his book “James.”

Percival Everett Wins Pulitzer for ‘James’

South Pasadena novelist and USC professor Percival Everett won the 2025 Pulitzer Prize for fiction on Monday, May 5, for his 24th novel, "James."

James is a critical act. Literature, cultural, political. With this novel, which is part of the classic Huckleberry Finn's Adventures, by Mark Twain, Percival Everett has just won the Ficção Pulitzer.