Percival Everett

1956–

American novelist, poet and short-story writer known for satire and experiments with genre, language and racial identity. He studied philosophy at the University of Miami and fiction at Brown University, and has taught English at the University of Southern California. Erasure (2001) inspired the film American Fiction. The Trees was shortlisted for the 2022 Booker Prize. James (2024), his reimagining of Huckleberry Finn through Jim’s perspective, was Booker-shortlisted and won the National Book Award for Fiction and the 2025 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.

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