21 Facts About Percival Everett

Percival Leonard Everett II was born on December 22,1956 and is an American writer and Distinguished Professor of English at the University of Southern California.

Percival Everett has described himself as "pathologically ironic" and has played around with numerous genres such as western fiction, mysteries, thrillers, satire and philosophical fiction.

Percival Everett's books are often satirical, aimed at exploring race and identity issues in the United States.

Percival Everett is best known for his novels Erasure, I Am Not Sidney Poitier, and The Trees, which was shortlisted for the 2022 Booker Prize.

Percival L Everett, named after his father, was born in Fort Gordon, Georgia, where his father, Percival Leonard Everett, was a sergeant in the US Army.

Percival Everett has a sister, Denise Everett, a physician in Raleigh, NC.

Percival Everett's father became a dentist and his parents continued to live in South Carolina.

Percival Everett earned a bachelor's degree in philosophy from the University of Miami.

Percival Everett studied a broad variety of topics including biochemistry and mathematical logic.

In 1987, Percival Everett published The Weather and Women Treat Me Fair: Stories, a collection of short stories set mostly in the contemporary western United States.

In 1990, Percival Everett published two books: Zulus, which combines the grotesque and the apocalypse; and For Her Dark Skin, a new version of Medea by the Greek playwright Euripides.

In 1996, Percival Everett published two books: Watershed has a contemporary western setting, in which the loner hydrologist Robert Hawkes meets a Native American "small person", who helps him come to terms with the inter-relation of people.

That year, Percival Everett published his second collection of stories, Big Picture.

Percival Everett writes notes to his mother on a variety of literary topics based on books she supplies.

Percival Everett's odyssey teaches him more about love than intellect.

In 2001, Percival Everett published his satirical novel Erasure, in which he portrays how the publishing industry pigeon-holes African-American writers.

Also in 2004, Percival Everett released a third collection of short stories, Damned If I Do: Stories, as well as the novel American Desert.

Percival Everett is on the trail of an old woman's murderer.

Percival Everett's stories have been included in the Pushcart Prize Anthology and Best American Short Stories.

Percival Everett received an honorary doctorate from the College of Santa Fe in 2008.

In 2016, Percival Everett was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and in 2023 he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters.