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Percival Everett

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Born: December 21 1956

Percival L. Everett 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. In 22 years, he has written 19 books, including a farcical Western, a savage satire of the publishing industry, a children’s story spoofing counting books, retellings of the Greek myths of Medea and Dionysus, and a philosophical tract narrated by a four-year-old.

The Washington Post has called Everett “one of the most adventurously experimental of modern American novelists.” And according to The Boston Globe, “He’s literature’s NASCAR champion, going flat out, narrowly avoiding one seemingly inevitable crash only to steer straight for the next.”

Everett, who teaches courses in creative writing, American studies and critical theory, says he writes about what interests him, which explains his prolific output and the range of subjects he has tackled. He also describes himself as a demanding teacher who learns from his students as much as they learn from him.

Everett’s writing has earned him the PEN USA 2006 Literary Award , the Academy Award for Literature of the American Academy of Arts and Letters and the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award , the PEN/Oakland-Josephine Miles Award for Excellence in Literature and the New American Writing Award . He has served as a judge for, among others, the 1997 National Book Award for fiction and the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction in 1991.

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Percival Everett

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Books from Percival Everett

Erasure

I Am Not Sidney Poitier

The Trees

So Much Blue

Telephone

Half an Inch of Water

Assumption

Wounded

American Desert

Glyph

In the United States of Africa

The Impossibly

Assumption

Damned if I Do

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