Set in the antebellum South, Mark Twain’s classic tale of two runaways — one escaping an abusive father, and the other ... Others simply state that Huck Finn “conflicted with the values ...

Percival Everett has won the National Book Award for Fiction for his novel “James,” a retelling of Mark Twain’s classic “Huckleberry Finn ... Coates — the father of author Ta-Nehisi ...