Percival Everett is the author of over thirty published works including Zulus Erasure I Am Not Sidney Poitier Assumption Percival Everett by Virgil Russell Telephone The Trees Dr. No and James. A Guggenheim Fellow and Pulitzer Prize Finalist Everett has won the PEN Oakland/Josephine Miles Literary Award the Academy Award in Literature the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for Comic Fiction and the Windham-Campbell Literature Prize for Fiction. In 2022 The Trees was shortlisted for the Booker Prize. His novel Erasure has been adapted into the major film American Fiction which was nominated for five Academy Awards. Everett lives in Los Angeles CA where he is Distinguished Professor of English at the University of Southern California. . Language: English