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James: A Novel

The winner of the 2025 Stowe Prize for Literary Activism is Percival Everett for James: A Novel (Doubleday, 2024). This, the 11th prize awarded, is the first work of fiction to win.

James: A Novel is a reimagining of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, told by James, known as “Jim” in Mark Twain’s 1885 novel. “But to call James a retelling would be an injustice,” writes Tyler Austin Harper in The Atlantic Magazine (April 2024). “Everett sends Mark Twain’s classic through the looking glass. …[James’s] realities lie in the details of life lived under conditions of unceasing brutality—the omnipresent whip, the daily interplay of dread and panic, the rage that can find no outlet.”

Learn more about the Stowe Prize for Literary Activism 2025