{"id":1260,"date":"2025-06-25T17:54:19","date_gmt":"2025-06-26T00:54:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/news-briefs\/?p=1260"},"modified":"2025-06-27T15:37:30","modified_gmt":"2025-06-27T22:37:30","slug":"percival-everett-2025-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/news-briefs\/faculty-recogntion\/2025\/06\/percival-everett-2025-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Percival Everett"},"content":{"rendered":"  \n    \n\n\n\n\n\n\n<div\n  class=\"cc--component-container cc--article-intro \"\n\n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  >\n  <div class=\"c--component c--article-intro\"\n    \n      >\n\n    \n  \n\n  <\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n\n  \n    \n\n\n\n\n\n\n<div\n  class=\"cc--component-container cc--rich-text \"\n\n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  >\n  <div class=\"c--component c--rich-text\"\n    \n      >\n\n    \n      \n<div class=\"f--field f--wysiwyg\">\n\n    \n  <h2>Percival Everett<\/h2>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-641 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/news-briefs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/182\/2023\/10\/everett-percival-st-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"Photograph of Percival Everett.\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/news-briefs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/182\/2023\/10\/everett-percival-st-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/news-briefs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/182\/2023\/10\/everett-percival-st-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/news-briefs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/182\/2023\/10\/everett-percival-st.jpg 900w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/profile\/percival-everett\/\"><strong>Percival Everett<\/strong><\/a>, Distinguished Professor of English, has been named one of <em>TIME\u2019s<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/time.com\/collections\/100-most-influential-people-2025\/\">100 Most Influential People of 2025<\/a>, an award that, according to <em>Time<\/em>, focuses \u201con the individuals who are transforming the world.\u201d Of Everett\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/news\/stories\/percival-everett-wins-2025-pulitzer-prize-for-james\/\">Pulitzer Prize-winning<\/a> novel <em>James<\/em>, writer and director Cord Jefferson wrote for <em>Time<\/em>: \u201cMany writers are afraid to insert levity in stories of tragedy, particularly stories of violent prejudice. But <em>James<\/em>, which <a href=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/news\/stories\/percival-everett-wins-national-book-award-for-james\/\">won the National Book Award<\/a>, shows that to omit joy is to do a disservice to the people who endured those tragedies.\u201d (Jefferson won the Academy Award for his screenplay of <em>American Fiction<\/em>, which he adapted from Everett\u2019s book <em>Erasure<\/em>.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n  <\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/profile\/percival-everett\/\"><strong>Percival Everett<\/strong><\/a>, Distinguished Professor of English, has been named one of <em>TIME&#8217;s<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/time.com\/collections\/100-most-influential-people-2025\/\">100 Most Influential People of 2025<\/a>, and award that, according to <em>Time<\/em>, focuses \u201con the individuals who are transforming the world.\u201d Of Everett\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/news\/stories\/percival-everett-wins-2025-pulitzer-prize-for-james\/\">Pulitzer Prize-winning<\/a> novel <em>James<\/em>, writer and director Cord Jefferson wrote for <em>Time<\/em>: \u201cMany writers are afraid to insert levity in stories of tragedy, particularly stories of violent prejudice. But <em>James<\/em>, which <a href=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/news\/stories\/percival-everett-wins-national-book-award-for-james\/\">won the National Book Award<\/a>, shows that to omit joy is to do a disservice to the people who endured those tragedies.\u201d (Jefferson won the Academy Award for his screenplay of <em>American Fiction<\/em>, which he adapted from Everett\u2019s book <em>Erasure<\/em>.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":641,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1260","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-faculty-recogntion","category-humanities"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Percival Everett<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/news-briefs\/faculty-recogntion\/2025\/06\/percival-everett-2025-2\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Percival Everett - USC Dornsife News Briefs\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Percival Everett, Distinguished Professor of English, has been named one of TIME&#039;s 100 Most Influential People of 2025, and award that, according to Time, focuses \u201con the individuals who are transforming the world.\u201d Of Everett\u2019s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel James, writer and director Cord Jefferson wrote for Time: \u201cMany writers are afraid to insert levity in stories of tragedy, particularly stories of violent prejudice. 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