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# Percival Everett

Percival Everett is a Distinguished Professor of English at the University of Southern California and the author of more than twenty novels. His novel James won the 2025 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the National Book Award. His novel Erasure became the Academy Award-winning film American Fiction.

**Novelist**

## Books

- [James](/book/james)