Percival Everett, Jason De León selected as winners of the 2024 National Book Awards
Percival Everett won the National Book Award for Fiction for James, a retelling of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn told from Jim's point of view. In the non-fiction category, Jason de Leon's “The Soldier and the King: Survival and Hope in a World of Smugglers'' won. Winners were selected by a committee of authors, critics, […]
Former Alabama Republican US Rep. Robert Terry Everett dies at 87
MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) – Former Alabama Republican Congressman Robert Terry Everett, who represented the state’s 2nd Congressional District from 1993 to 2009, died Tuesday, the governor’s office announced. He was 87 years old. Everett passed away peacefully in his sleep at his home in the Dothan suburb of Rehobeth, Gov. Kay Ivey’s office said. Alabama […]