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Percival Everett (born December 22, 1956) is an American writer and Distinguished Professor of English at the University of Southern California. He has described himself as "pathologically ironic" and has played around with numerous genres such as western fiction, mysteries, thrillers, satire and philosophical fiction.
Nov 8, 2022 · If you’re a longtime fan, or just discovering his work, here are five novels to savor — stories that show Everett’s distinctive, often playful, literary style. ‘Dr. No’ (2022) Everett ...
Mar 11, 2024 · Percival Everett’s majestic new novel, “James,” goes several steps further. Everett flips the perspective on the events in “Huckleberry Finn.” He gives us the story as a coolly electric...
Percival Everett is an American writer whose works reflect a wide range of subjects and styles and often deal head-on with philosophy and preconceptions concerning race. He has authored more than 30 books of fiction and poetry, including the novels Erasure (2001) and Telephone (2020).
Feb 3, 2024 · There’s a scene in Percival Everett’s 2001 novel, “Erasure,” in which the main character, a cerebral Black novelist named Thelonious “Monk” Ellison, goes to a bookstore to hunt, as writers often...
Sep 22, 2021 · In The Trees, Everett revisits the 1955 murder of Emmett Till, imagining a series of similar killings in the same small Mississippi town. Mixing horror, humor...
Sep 20, 2021 · Percival Everett’s Deadly Serious Comedy. The novelist has regularly exploded our models of genre and identity. In “The Trees,” he’s raising the stakes, confronting America’s legacy of lynching...
Percival L. Everett (born 1956) is an American writer and Distinguished Professor of English at the University of Southern California. There might not be a more fertile mind in American fiction today than Everett’s.
Mar 7, 2023 · Pulitzer and Booker Prize finalist Percival Everett just won another prestigious award, the PEN/Jean Stein Award, for his newest book in which he makes a myriad of compelling creative choices.
Percival Everett is the author of over 30 books since his debut, Suder, was released in 1983. His modern classics include I Am Not Sidney Poitier, So Much Blue, Erasure and Glyph. He lives in Los Angeles and teaches at The University of Southern California.
