Percival Everett | |
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.jpg) Everett at the 2024 National Book Awards finalist reading | |
| Born | December 22, 1956 Fort Gordon, Georgia, U.S. |
| Occupation | Novelist, story writer |
| Education | University of Miami (BA) Brown University (MA) |
| Period | Contemporary |
| Notable works | Erasure (2001); I Am Not Sidney Poitier (2009); The Trees (2021); James (2024) |
| Notable awards | Hurston/Wright Legacy Award; Windham-Campbell Prize for fiction, 2023; National Book Award for Fiction, 2024 |
| Spouse | Danzy Senna |
| Children | 2 |
Percival Leonard Everett II (born December 22, 1956)[1] is an American writer[2] and Distinguished Professor of English at the University of Southern California. He has described himself as "pathologically ironic"[3] and has played around with numerous genres such as western fiction, mysteries, thrillers, satire and philosophical fiction.[4] His books are often satirical, aimed at exploring race and identity issues in the United States.
He is best known for his novels Erasure (2001), I Am Not Sidney Poitier (2009), and The Trees (2021), which was shortlisted for the 2022 Booker Prize. His 2024 novel James, also a finalist for the Booker Prize, won the Kirkus Prize and the National Book Award for Fiction.
Erasure was adapted as the film American Fiction (2023), written and directed by Cord Jefferson, starring Jeffrey Wright, Sterling K. Brown, and Leslie Uggams.
- ^ Bader, Philip (May 14, 2014). African-American Writers. Infobase Publishing. p. 84. ISBN 978-1-4381-0783-7.
- ^ Cowles, Gregory (September 18, 2005). "Fiction Chronicle". The New York Times. p. 22. Archived from the original on December 14, 2019. Retrieved June 11, 2011.
- ^ Razzall, Katie (April 9, 2024). "Percival Everett: Why I rewrote Huckleberry Finn to give slave Jim a voice". BBC News.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ^ Berry, Lorraine (November 8, 2022). "Meet Percival Everett: 5 novels that showcase the L.A. writer's enigmatic style". LA Times.
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