Black Writers Series Reading featuring novelist Percival Everett

Department: Intl. Center for Writing and Trans.

Date and Time: October 27, 2010 | 6:00 PM-7:30 PM

Event Location: 1030 Humanities Gateway

Event Details


“If part of the mission of the artist is to expand the thinking of the culture in which he exists, I have my work cut out for me.” —Percival Everrett


Percival Everett is the author of seventeen novels, three collections of short fiction, and two volumes of poetry. Among his novels are I Am Not Sidney Poitier (2009), newly released in 2009, The Water Cure (2008), Wounded, Glyph, Erasure, American Desert, For Her Dark Skin, Zulus, Cutting Lisa, Watershed, and God's Country.

He is the recipient of the PEN Center USA Award for Fiction, the Academy Award from an American Academy of Arts and Letters, the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award, the PEN/Oakland-Josephine Miles Award for Excellence in Literature, and a New American Writing Award. His stories have been included in the Pushcart Prize Anthology and Best American Short Stories. He has served as a judge for, among others, the 1997 National Book Award for fiction and the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction in 1991. He teaches fiction writing and critical theory and is currently Distinguished Professor of English at the University of Southern California.

He has worked as a musician, a horse trainer, and a teacher. He lives with his wife and two sons in Los Angeles.



This is the fifth event in our Black Writers Series, a partnership between the International Center for Writing and Translation (ICWT) and the African American Studies program in the School of Humanities. The series features accomplished poets, fiction and non-fiction writers in public readings serving the University and surrounding communities. Previous guests have included Cornelius Eady, Claudia Rankine, and Colson Whitehead.

This event is free and open to the public. For more information, please contact icwt@uci.edu or (949) 824-1948

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