PERCIVAL EVERETT is a Distinguished Professor of English at USC, and the author of New York Times bestseller and National Book Award winner James. His other recent 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. American Fiction, the feature film based on his novel Erasure, 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.

Praise for Percival Everett and Suder

"A mad work of comic genius, combining symbols and myths from ancients and moderns, white culture and black, juxtaposing heartbreaks with farce to make up a narrative that has never, never been told before."
--Los Angeles Times

"[A] marvelous first novel."
--The New York Times Book Review

"Very funny--sometimes excruciatingly so."
--Publishers Weekly

"God bless Percival Everett, whose dozens of idiosyncratic books demonstrate a majestic indifference to literary trends, the market, or his critics."
--The Wall Street Journal

"[Everett is a] prolific genius. . . . A literary jukebox."
--Elle

"Percival Everett [is] our current Great American Novelist. . . . Everett is one of the most, if not the most, interesting writers working today."
--Chicago Tribune

"If the unexpected always happens in Everett's individual novels, the variety across the work also astonishes."
--The Washington Post

"Percival Everett is a giant of American letters."
--Hernan Diaz, author of Trust

"One of our culture's preeminent novelists."
--Los Angeles Times

"Percival Everett is an audacious, beguiling American master, whose wild trajectory has reached astonishing highs in the past decade."
--Jonathan Lethem, author of Brooklyn Crime Novel

"[Everett] is a first-rate word wrangler."
--The Guardian

"Everett is one of the most unpredictable and original novelists working today."
--NPR

"Everett is a true American genius, a master artist."
--Oprah Daily

"Everett continues to be an endlessly inventive, genre-devouring creator of thoughtful, tender, provocative, and absolutely unpredictable literary wonders."
--Booklist

Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group

Pub date: 2025-10-21

Length: 192 pages