Everett Percival: Dr. No

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.

The Trees and James were both shortlisted for the Booker Prize. Erasure was adapted into the Oscar-nominated movie, American Fiction.

Everett lives in Los Angeles, CA, where he is Distinguished Professor of English at the University of Southern California.