Pamela Hayden, the longtime voice actor behind Milhouse Van Houten — Bart Simpson’s very uncool friend — is stepping away after 35 years of whining.

Hayden, 70, who voiced Milhouse, Jimbo Jones, Rod Flanders, Janey and Malibu Stacy, will sign off from “The Simpsons” on Nov. 24 in a “Treehouse of Horror” episode.

“It’s been an honor and a joy to have worked on such a funny, witty and groundbreaking show,” Hayden said in a statement.

“Pamela gave us tons of laughs with Milhouse, the hapless kid with the biggest nose in Springfield. She made Milhouse hilarious and real, and we will miss her,” show creator Matt Groening said.

Casting for her characters is planned.

Milhouse first appeared in a Butterfinger commercial in 1989 and was named for former U.S. President Richard Milhous Nixon. Groening said he adopted it “because that was the most unfortunate name a kid could have.”

The nearsighted character was often the butt of jokes and bullied mercilessly by Nelson Muntz.

In one episode, Bart got Milhouse placed on the America’s Most Wanted list, but in another, Milhouse traded Bart’s soul to the guy at the comic book store.

Everett, De León win book awards: Percival Everett’s “James,” a reworking of “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn,” has won the National Book Award for fiction. Jason De León’s “Soldiers and Kings: Survival and Hope in the World of Human Smuggling” won for nonfiction, where finalists included Salman Rushdie’s memoir about his 2022 stabbing, “Knife.”

The prize for young people’s literature was given Wednesday to Shifa Saltagi Safadi’s coming-of-age story “Kareem Between,” and the poetry award went to Lena Khalaf Tuffaha’s “Something About Living.” In the translation category, the winner was Yáng Shuang-zi’s “Taiwan Travelogue,” translated from Mandarin Chinese by Lin King.

Everett’s win continues his remarkable rise in the past few years. Little known to general readers for decades, he has been a Booker Prize and Pulitzer Prize finalist for such novels as “Trees” and “Dr. No” and has seen the novel “Erasure” adapted into the Oscar-nominated “American Fiction.”

In taking on Mark Twain’s classic about the wayward boy Huck and the enslaved Jim, Everett tells the story from the latter’s perspective and emphasizes how differently Jim behaves and even speaks when whites are not around. The novel was a Booker finalist and won the Kirkus Prize for fiction.

“ ‘James’ has been nicely received,” Everett said during his acceptance speech.

“Demon Copperhead” novelist Barbara Kingsolver and Black Classic Press publisher W. Paul Coates received lifetime achievement medals from the National Book Foundation, which presents the awards.

Nov. 23 birthdays: Actor Franco Nero is 83. Comedian Bruce Vilanch is 77. Singer Bruce Hornsby is 70. Actor Maxwell Caulfield is 65. TV host Robin Roberts is 64. Actor Salli Richardson-Whitfield is 57. Actor Oded Fehr is 54. Actor Page Kennedy is 48. TV personality Nicole “Snooki” Polizzi is 37. Singer Miley Cyrus is 32.