American · b. 1956
Percival Everett has published over thirty books across four decades, but "James" (2024)—a retelling of "Huckleberry Finn" from Jim's perspective—brought him to wide attention. The novel won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. "The Trees" (2022) was shortlisted for the Booker Prize—a satirical thriller about lynching's legacy. Everett teaches at USC. His range is extraordinary: literary novels, Westerns, poetry, experimental fiction.