Paul Beatty wins first Booker Prize for US

Racial stereotypes and police killings of black men are subject to the author's scathing eye

Paul Beatty's The Sellout, a stinging satire of race and class in the United States that has drawn comparisons to Richard Pryor and Mark Twain, won the Man Booker Prize on Tuesday, the first time an American has taken the prestigious fiction award.

Judges said Beatty's provocative book was a satire to rank with the classics, and as timely as the evening news.