A beloved piece of literary history is getting an authentic restoration, and people are invited to learn all about it on ...

Published in March 2024, James also won the Kirkus Prize for Fiction and the National Book Award, and was a finalist for the Booker Prize and the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction.

Ron Chernow’s Mark Twain forces a similar conclusion about its subject: clearly an idiot, and a born sucker. This conclusion ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Historian Ron Chernow’s latest work may surprise readers who know him best for the book which inspired the ...

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

Mark Twain gave us inimitable characters such as Huck Finn and Tom Sawyer. He was no less creative in styling himself as ...

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

Chernow specializes in big American lives. He won a Pulitzer Prize for his biography of George Washington, and another of his ...

James” is a retelling of “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn,” told from the perspective of Jim, an enslaved man determined ...

The Pulitzer citation called James an “accomplished reconsideration” that illustrates “the absurdity of racial supremacy and ...

Percival Everett has won the 2025 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for James, his retelling of Huckleberry Finn through the eyes of ...