Percival Everett's latest honor comes from the country’s public libraries.

Percival Everett’s “James” has received yet another literary nomination.

Percival Everett’s “James,” a reworking of Mark Twain’s “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn” from the enslaved Jim’s perspective, is among the fiction finalists for the 11th annual Kirkus Prize.

Author and journalist Wesley Morgan is this year’s winner of the William E.

Lauren Groff’s novel “Matrix” is among the finalists for an Andrew Carnegie Medal for fiction.

A novel about a Marine’s time in Vietnam and his struggles back home has won a $5,000 prize.