Percival Everett is a Distinguished Professor of English at USC. His latest novel, James, won the 2024 Kirkus Prize and the National Book Award for fiction. His other titles include Dr. No, The Trees, Telephone, So Much Blue and I Am Not Sidney Poitier. American Fiction, the feature film based on his novel Erasure, was released in 2023 and was awarded an Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay. He resides in Los Angeles.