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Recent Pulitzer Prize Finalist (Telephone) Percival Everett is the author of more than thirty novels and story collections, including The Trees, Telephone, So Much Blue, Percival Everett by Virgil Russell, I Am Not Sidney Poitier and Erasure. Everett has won the Ivan Sandrof Lifetime Achievement Award from the National Book Critics Circle, the Dos Passos Prize, the PEN Center USA Award for Fiction, the PEN Oakland/Josephine Miles Literary Award, the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award for Fiction, The 2010 Believer Book Award, the Premio Gregor von Rezzori, a Creative Capital Award, BS the Academy Award in Literature from The American Academy of Arts and Letters. He is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship. Everett is currently Distinguished Professor of English at University of Southern California.
"Everett has cultivated a reputation for his vast, genre-defying and sometimes gleefully unhinged body of work." — New York Times
"There are two kinds of readers in America: those who are reading Percival Everett, and those who are missing out." - National Book Critics Circle
Exhibit X Fiction will return to Hallwalls in person in the fall (academic year 2022–2023) to begin its 20th year! (2003–2004 was Year 1!)