"James" Wins Kirkus Prize
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•Percival Everett's 'James' wins $50,000 Kirkus Prize for fiction
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Percival Everett's novel “ James’s ” reworking of “ The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn , ” wins $ 50,000 Kirkus Prize for fiction.
Everett has been a runner-up for the Pulitzer Prize and for the National Book Critics Circle prize.
Adam Higginbotham's “Challenger,” about the 1986 space shuttle tragedy, won the Kirkus prize for nonfiction.
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