Percival Everett, Branden Jacobs-Jenkins win Pulitzer Prizes in the arts

Novelist Percival Everett won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction for “James”, a reimagining of Huckleberry Finn told from the perspective of an enslaved man, while playwright Branden Jacobs-Jenkins won the drama prize for “Purpose”, a play about a successful Black family in crisis. Other winners included Jason Roberts for biography, Marie Howe for poetry, and Susie Ibarra for music.