Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Sughnen Yongo is a Midwest writer covering Black women, pop culture. Although Patterson has published over 200 books, this list ...

I’ve had difficult interviews before. I’ve interviewed Lou Reed, who may be the most notoriously difficult interview subject of the past half century. (It went badly.) I once walked out of an ...

This piece was originally published on March 19. We are recirculating it in honor of his National Book Award win on November 20. There’s also the matter of James’s great theme: a reinterpretation of ...

Mark Twain’s Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is one of America’s greatest works of literature—and one of its most problematic. Contemporary writer Percival Everett provides a new path into the book’s ...

The broad outlines of Percival Everett’s new novel, “James,” will be immediately familiar to anyone with even a basic knowledge of American literature: A boy named Huckleberry Finn and an enslaved man ...

This spring, Percival Everett spoke with Dan White, Humanities Writer at UC Santa Cruz, about the creation of his 2024 National Book Award-winning novel James, a book that reoccupies and reimagines ...

Jumpman: The Making and Meaning of Michael Jordan. By Johnny Smith. Basic Books; 336 pages; $30. The Book of James: The Power, Politics, and Passion of LeBron. By Valerie Babb. PublicAffairs; 304 ...

Seventy-five-year-old author James Patterson has built a career writing hundreds of novels and children's books, many of which have become bestsellers, ever since his early 20s. Recently, Patterson ...

A poet and scholar, James sought to avoid conflicts in Europe and commissioned the translation of the Bible that would bear his name.