South Pasadena’s Percival Everett, a USC professor, wins Pulitzer for ‘James’

South Pasadena novelist and USC professor Percival Everett won the 2025 Pulitzer Prize for fiction Monday for his 24th novel, “James.”
Published in March 2024 to widespread critical acclaim, “James” was named a finalist for the 2024 Booker Prize and the 2025 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction, and went on to win the 2024 National Book Award for Fiction.
“James” is a retelling of Mark Twain’s “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn,” told from the per