Percival Everett
American novelist and short-story writer whose prolific and genre-defying fiction challenges literary conventions and racial essentialism with wit and philosophical rigor. James, a retelling of Huckleberry Finn, won the Pulitzer Prize in 2024. He is one of the most inventive writers in American literature.
Works
- JamesA contemporary reimagining of Henry James's The Portrait of a Lady with added depth
- ErasureA satirical novel about an African American author confronting literary stereotypes
- American DesertA dark comedy following a man's descent through an American wasteland of despair
- I Am Not Sidney PoitierA metafictional comedy about a man living in a screenplay not his own
- TelephoneA sparse, philosophical novella exploring identity and mortality through minimalism