I Am Not Sidney Poitier

Name: I Am Not Sidney Poitier
Author: Percival Everett

by Percival Everett

A metafictional comedy about a man living in a screenplay not his own

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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.

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