BIANNA GOLODRYGA, SENIOR GLOBAL AFFAIRS ANALYST: Well, now, our next guest is making a splash in popular culture. The work of Percival Everett was plunged into the spotlight when his novel, “Erasure,” ...
Was the character of Jim, the runaway slave in the classic American novel “Adventures of Huckleberry Finn,’’ inspired by a story that author Mark Twain heard while living in Muscatine during 1854?
Illustration by E. W. Kemble, from first edition of 'Adventures of Huckleberry Finn,' 1884. [Editor’s Note, introducing the scene: Halfway through their trip down the river in The Adventures of ...