Percival Everett: Why I rewrote Huckleberry Finn to give slave Jim a voice - BBC News

The author's new novel, James, is a re-imagining of Mark Twain's The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.

13 hours agoShareclose panelShare pageCopy linkAbout sharingImage source, Getty ImagesImage caption, Percival Everett's inspiration for his novel came while he was preoccupied with a tennis ballBy Katie RazzallCulture and media editorPercival Everett, whose novel Erasure was turned into the Oscar-winning film American Fiction, had the idea for his latest book, James, when he was playing tennis.

The Booker Prize-nominated author had just hit a ball "wildly" out of court.

"I stopped and thought, 'I wonder if anyone has written Huck Finn from Jim's point of view?'".

They hadn't, so Everett did.

The writer adds this particular thought was nothing to do with his game, just that it was "the way most ideas come".

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