Percival Everett

Percival Everett is an American writer and Distinguished Professor of English at USC. He is best known for his novels "Erasure" (2001), "I Am Not Sidney Poitier" (2009) and "The Trees" (2021), which was shortlisted for the 2022 Booker Prize. "Erasure" was adapted as the film "American Fiction" (2023), written and directed by Cord Jefferson, starring Jeffrey Wright, Sterling K. Brown and Leslie Uggams. The film was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture.