Percival Everett's novel James reimagines "The Adventure of Huckleberry Finn" from the perspective of enslaved title characters, winning the Pulitzer Prize for Novel.

"Purpose," Branden Jacobs-Jenkins' drawing room drama, tells the story of a mature black family who destroys themselves from within and wins the drama. Last week, it also received six Tony Award nominations.

Everett's Pulitzer confirmed that the million-selling "James" is the most famous and popular American literary novel in the United States in 2024, and accelerated the 68-year-old author to be known to the public for decades. He has won the Pen/Jean Stein Award “No Dr. No” since 2021, and is a Pulitz finalist for “Telephone” and a Booker’s “The Trees” finalist.

Before Monday, "James" had won the National Book Award, the Courcus Award and the Carnegie Novel Medal. His 2001-released Race and Publication Satire "Erased" was adapted into the Oscar-nominated 2023 film "American Novels".

Pulitzer's quote, called "James" is "completed reconsideration", illustrates "the absurdity of racial supremacy and provides new perspectives for searches for families and freedoms." Everett said in a statement that he was "shocked and happy, but was greatly shocked. It was a wonderful honor."

"Purpose" is praised in the quotation as "a skillful fusion of drama and comedy, exploring how generations define legacy." Jacobs-Jenkins was nominated for Pulitzer twice, 2018 for "Everyone" and 2016 for "Gloria".

Last year, he won the Tony Award for Best Competition in a “proper” capacity, a work centered around Arkansas family gatherings where everyone has competitive motivation and dissatisfaction. He is the host committee of this year's Mets League.

Similarly, Pulitzer officials announced that Jason Roberts won the Biography Award “Everything: The Great and Deadly Competition to Know All Life” and Benjamin Nathans’ “To Gain the Success of Our Desperate Causes: Many Life in the Dissident Movement of the Soviet Union”.

Two books have been announced as historical winners such as "James" and "Purpose", "American History and Cultural Race Exploration: Edda Fields-Brack's "Comb: Harriet Tubman: Cumber Tubman in the Civil War", Black Liberty during the Civil War" and Kathleen Duval's "Native Country: Millennium in the Northern America."

Marie Howe's "New Poetry and Selected Poetry" won the poem, and the composer-Prosian Susie Ibarra's "Sky Islands", an eight-piece ensemble inspired by the rainforest habitat of Luzon, Philippines, was awarded the music of Pulitzer. Her autobiography’s Pulitzer went to Tessa Hulls’ multi-generation “Feeding Ghosts: Graphic Memoirs,” her first book.

Pritz people announced on Monday that when the National Arts Foundation supported thousands of writers and literary organizations, he was cutting funds and prompting employees to leave. Howe and Everett are both the past of NEA Creative Writing Scholarships.