Percival Everett is the author of over thirty published works including Booker Prize-shortlisted James Zulus Erasure (adapted into the Oscar-winning film American Fiction) I Am Not Sidney Poitier Assumption Percival Everett by Virgil Russell Telephone The Trees and Dr. No. A Guggenheim Fellow and Pulitzer Prize Finalist Everett has won the PEN Oakland/Josephine Miles Literary Award the Academy Award in Literature the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for Comic Fiction and the Windham-Campbell Literature Prize for Fiction. In 2022 The Trees was shortlisted for the Booker Prize. Everett lives in Los Angeles CA where he is Distinguished Professor of English at the University of Southern California. . Language: English