Search results
Percival Everett (born December 22, 1956) is an American writer and Distinguished Professor of English at the University of Southern California. He has described himself as "pathologically ironic" [3] and has played around with numerous genres such as western fiction, mysteries, thrillers, satire and philosophical fiction. [4]
Nov 8, 2022 · Meet Percival Everett: 5 novels that showcase the L.A. writer’s enigmatic style. The L.A. Times Book Club is reading “Dr. No” by Percival Everett. (Graywolf Press/ Wesley Lapointe) By Lorraine...
- Lorraine Berry
Percival Everett is an American writer whose works reflect a wide range of subjects and styles and often deal head-on with philosophy and preconceptions concerning race. He has authored more than 30 books of fiction and poetry, including the novels Erasure (2001) and Telephone (2020).
Mar 11, 2024 · Percival Everett Can’t Say What His Novels Mean. The author of “Erasure” is renowned for his satires of genre, identity, and America. But his great target may be language itself. By Maya Binyam....
- Maya Binyam
Percival L. Everett (born 1956) 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.
- (99.6K)
- December 22, 1956
Mar 11, 2024 · Percival Everett’s majestic new novel, “James,” goes several steps further. Everett flips the perspective on the events in “Huckleberry Finn.” He gives us the story as a coolly electric...
Sep 20, 2021 · Percival Everett’s Deadly Serious Comedy. The novelist has regularly exploded our models of genre and identity. In “The Trees,” he’s raising the stakes, confronting America’s legacy of lynching...
