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Percival Everett

Biography

Percival Everett

Percival Everett's most recent books include JAMES, DR. NO (a finalist for the NBCC Award for Fiction and the PEN/Jean Stein Book Award), THE TREES (a finalist for the Booker Prize and the PEN/Jean Stein Book Award), TELEPHONE (a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize), SO MUCH BLUE, ERASURE and I AM NOT SIDNEY POITIER. He has a poetry collection forthcoming with Red Hen Press. He has received the NBCC Ivan Sandrof Lifetime Achievement Award, the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award, and the PEN Center USA Award for Fiction, and is a Distinguished Professor of English at USC.

Percival Everett

Books by Percival Everett

by Percival Everett - Fiction, Historical Fiction

Both harrowing and ferociously funny, JAMES is a brilliant, action-packed reimagining of ADVENTURES OF HUCKLEBERRY FINN, told from the enslaved Jim's point of view.