*Everett, Percival: -PERCIVAL EVERETTis is a distinguished professor of English at the University of Southern California. His most recent books include James (#1 New York Times bestseller, Pulitzer Prize winner, National Book Award winner, Kirkus Prize winner), Dr. No (finalist for the NBCC Award fo...

*Everett, Percival: -PERCIVAL EVERETTis is a distinguished professor of English at the University of Southern California. His most recent books include James (#1 New York Times bestseller, Pulitzer Prize winner, National Book Award winner, Kirkus Prize winner), 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), and Telephone (finalist for the Pulitzer Prize). American Fiction,the feature film based on his novel Erasure *, was released in 2023 and won the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay. He lives in Los Angeles with his wife, the writer Danzy Senna, and their children.