Percival Everett
Percival Everett is the acclaimed author of seven books, including Dr. No , winner of the PEN/Jean Stein Book Award and finalist for the NBCC Award for Fiction; The Trees , finalist for the Booker Prize and the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction; and Telephone , finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. He has received the NBCC Ivan Sandrof Life Achievement Award and The Windham Campbell Prize from Yale University. His novel Erasure was the basis for the feature film American Fiction , winner of the 2024...See more
Percival Everett is the acclaimed author of seven books, including Dr. No , winner of the PEN/Jean Stein Book Award and finalist for the NBCC Award for Fiction; The Trees , finalist for the Booker Prize and the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction; and Telephone , finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. He has received the NBCC Ivan Sandrof Life Achievement Award and The Windham Campbell Prize from Yale University. His novel Erasure was the basis for the feature film American Fiction , winner of the 2024 Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay. He is a distinguished professor of English at the University of Southern California. See less