From his childhood, Samuel Clemens was devoted to showmanship, exaggeration and the joy of a tall tale.

Percival Everett’s novel “James,” his radical re-imagining of “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn,” has won the Pulitzer ...

Ron Chernow has written biographies about great men before but in Mark Twain he tackled a larger than life character known ...

The Pulitzer Prize Board described James as “an accomplished reconsideration of Huckleberry Finn that gives agency to Jim to ...

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Actor and historian Doug Riley appeared as Mark Twain at the Brooke County Public Library on April 24. Riley offered a look ...

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 ...

By Dan White Acclaimed novelist Percival Everett will step onto the stage of the Quarry Amphitheater at UC Santa Cruz this ...

Percival Everett’s 'James' wins the Pulitzer for Fiction, reimagining Huckleberry Finn through Jim’s eyes in a gripping, ...

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 ...