Percival Everett, winner of the Lucien Barriere Literary Award for his novel "I Am Not Sidney Poitier" poses on the red carpet before the screening of the movie "Lawless" on Sept. 5, 2012, during ...

Percival Everett writes novels that play with genre, with language and with our culture’s assumptions about race and gender. But for his novel “Dr. No,” coming in November from Graywolf ...

When we meet Kevin Pace, the protagonist/narrator of Percival Everett’s new novel, “So Much Blue,” he’s 56 years old and has found the space and medium for fashioning himself finally.

Author Percival Everett attends the 75th National Book Awards ceremony at Cipriani Wall Street on Wednesday, Nov. 20, 2024, in New York. (Photo by Andy Kropa/Invision/AP) ...

Authors Percival Everett, left, and Jason De Leon attend the 75th National Book Awards ceremony at Cipriani Wall Street on Wednesday, Nov. 20, 2024, in New York. (Andy Kropa/Invision/AP) ...

There aren’t many living authors whose novels are already taught in schools alongside Dickens and Steinbeck, but Percival Everett is one of them. The California-based writer of more than 30 ...

In “Telephone,” the latest novel from Percival Everett, a family medical crisis and a mysterious note prompt a professor to head out on a mission to save a group of women.

"JAMES" by Percival Everett (Doubleday, 320 pages, $28). Wherever you are in the world, you can be sure of two things: There is oxygen, and Percival Everett is at work on another book.

Author Percival Everett will be at the Coolidge Corner Theatre on June 4 to discuss "James," followed by a showing of "American Fiction." Ahead of his appearance at the Coolidge, Everett sat down with ...

On Sunday, the American Library Association announced that Everett's “James” was this year's winner of the Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction, which includes a $5,000 cash award.

NEW YORK (AP) — Salman Rushdie's memoir a bout his near-fatal stabbing, “Knife,” and Percival Everett's revisionist historical novel, “James," are among the finalists for the 75th annual ...