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Biographies of american authors From the author of The Trees, shortlisted for the Booker Prize, and Erasure, adapted into the Oscar-winning film American Fiction. Enthralling and ferociously funny, James by Percival Everett is a profound meditation on identity, belonging and the sacrifices we make to protect the ones we love.

Best biography books If life imitates art, then, a collection of letters as judiciously chosen and scrupulously edited as Philip Horne's ought to uncover the essential Henry James.

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Early in James, the protagonist — an enslaved man on the run — writes for the first time in his life. James has learnt that he is to be torn from his family and sold south from Missouri.

Best biography writers In his latest novel, James, Percival Everett reimagines Twain’s classic (first published in ), switching the perspective from the eponymous daring rascal to that of Jim, who becomes a slave on the run when he flees Huck’s guardian.

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Best biographies or autobiographies In James, we are introduced for the first time to a character named Jim: a cerebral narrator, fiercely loyal father and husband, and enslaved man living in Missouri before the civil war. Jim is an expert in “[giving] white folks what they want”—speaking in a heightened (*cough* Twanian *cough*) diction and pretending to be unable to write.

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