Percival Everett is a Distinguished Professor of English at the University of Southern California. His latest novel, "James," was published in March of 2024 to critical acclaim. His other titles include "Dr. No" (finalist for the NBCC Award for Fiction and winner of the PEN/Jean Stein Book Award), "The Trees" (finalist for the Booker Prize and the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction), "Telephone" (finalist for the Pulitzer Prize), "So Much Blue," "Erasure," and "I Am Not Sidney Poitier." He has received the NBCC Ivan Sandrof Life Achievement Award and The Windham Campbell Prize from Yale University. "American Fiction," the feature film based on his novel "Erasure," was released in 2023 and was awarded the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay. He lives in Los Angeles with his wife, the writer Danzy Senna, and their children.