Percival Everett

Percival Everett is an American author and Distinguished Professor of English at the University of Southern California, who has written across western fiction, mysteries, thrillers, satire and philosophical fiction. His books often turn satirical attention on race and identity in the United States. He is best known for Erasure (2001), I Am Not Sidney Poitier (2009), The Trees (2021) and James (2024), which won the Kirkus Prize, the National Book Award for Fiction and the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.