Percival Everett

<b>Percival Everett</b> is a Distinguished Professor of English at USC. His most recent books include <em>James</em>, <em>Dr. No</em> (finalist for the NBCC Award for Fiction and winner of the PEN/ Jean Stein Book Award), <em>The Trees</em> (finalist for the Booker Prize and the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction), <em>Telephone</em> (finalist for the Pulitzer Prize), <em>So Much Blue</em>, <em>Erasure</em>, and <em>I Am Not Sidney Poitier</em>. He has received the NBCC Ivan Sandrof Life Achievement Award and The Windham Campbell Prize from Yale University. <em>American Fiction</em>, the feature film based on his novel <em>Erasure</em>, was released in 2023 and was awarded the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay. He lives in Los Angeles with his wife, the writer Danzy Senna, and their children.