Former MSNBC host Joy Reid and authors Percival Everett and John Edgar Wideman are among this year's recipients of the American Book Awards.

Novels by Angela Flournoy, Kiran Desai and Megha Majumdar, along with a memoir by Arundhati Roy, are finalists for the Kirkus Prize.

Percival Everett's Pulitzer-winning novel, “James,” is a nominee for the Dayton Literary Peace Prize.

President Donald Trump’s proposed budget calls for the elimination of the National Endowment for the Arts, which provides hundreds of millions of dollars each year to individuals and institutions around the country.

Percival Everett’s novel “James,” his radical reimagining of “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn” from the perspective of the enslaved title character, has won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction.

Percival Everett’s “James” is a finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award for fiction.

Percival Everett’s “James” is up for another literary award.

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

Barbra Streisand, Kate McKinnon and Elton John are among the nominees for the 30th annual Audie Awards, presented by the Audio Publishers Association.

Even through a year of nonstop news about elections, climate change, protests and the price of eggs, Americans still found time to read.

Percival Everett’s “James” has won the National Book Award for fiction.

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

American writers Percival Everett and Rachel Kushner have been shortlisted for the Booker Prize.

Percival Everett’s “James,” his acclaimed retelling of Mark Twain’s “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn,” is a fiction nominee for the National Book Awards.

Six American writers are among 13 semifinalists for the Booker Prize for fiction.

Few films have broken out like Cord Jefferson's “American Fiction” has at the Toronto International Film Festival."

Percival Everett and Ling Ma, already two of the year’s most honored writers, are among eight winners of the lucrative Windham-Campbell Prize.

The honors keep coming in for fiction writer-poet Percival Everett.

Fiction by Percival Everett and Ling Ma, nonfiction by Annie Proulx and biographies of George Balanchine and J.

American authors Elizabeth Strout and Percival Everett are up against writers from Britain, Ireland, Zimbabwe and Sri Lanka as finalists for the prestigious Booker Prize for fiction.

Honorée Fanonne Jeffers’ “The Love Songs of W.