Conversations with Percival Everett (Literary C. Weixelmann<|

University Press of Mississippi

Conversations with Percival EverettAuthor(s): Joe Weixelmann\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: University Press of Mississippi, United States\nImprint: University Press of Mississippi\nISBN-13: 9781617037597, 978-1617037597\nSynopsis\nFor the first eighteen years of his career, Percival Everett (b. 1956) managed to fly under the radar of the literary establishment. He followed his artistic vision down a variety of unconventional paths, including his preference for releasing his books through independent publishers. But with the publication of his novel erasure in 2001, his literary talent could no longer be kept under wraps. The author of more than twenty-five books, Everett has established himself as one of America's--and arguably the world's--premier twenty-first-century fiction writers. Among his many honors since 2000 are Hurston/Wright Legacy Awards for erasure and I Am Not Sidney Poitier [tel] and three prominent awards for his 2005 novel Wounded--the PEN Center USA Literary Award .