Percival Everett has published 16 novels, three collections of short fiction and two volumes of poetry. Among his novels are Wounded, American Desert, For Her Dark Skin, Zulus, The Weather and the Women Treat Me Fair, Suder, Erasure and The Water Cure. He has received the Academy Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the PEN/Oakland-Josephine Miles Award for Excellence in Literature for his short story collection Big Picture, a New Writing Award and the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award. A South Carolina native, Everett teaches at the University of Southern California.  

Speaking Schedule

Thursday, April 2
Reading
1:00 p.m.

Friday, April 3
Tribute to George Garrett
2:45 p.m.

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