Percival Everett

Percival Everett is a Distinguished Professor of English at USC. His most recent novel, James (2024), won the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, and the Kirkus Prize. It also was shortlisted for the Booker Prize, was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, and was named one of the ten best books of the year by the New York Times. His many earlier books include Dr. No (finalist for the NBCC Award for Fiction and winner of the PEN/ Jean Stein Book Award), The Trees (finalist for the Booker Prize and the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction), Telephone (finalist for the Pulitzer Prize), So Much Blue, Erasure, and I Am Not Sidney Poitier. He has received the NBCC Ivan Sandrof Life Achievement Award and the Windham Campbell Prize from Yale University. He lives in Los Angeles with his wife, the writer Danzy Senna, and their children.