{"id":15112,"date":"2023-05-05T14:29:36","date_gmt":"2023-05-05T21:29:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/news\/?p=15112"},"modified":"2023-07-10T18:30:25","modified_gmt":"2023-07-11T01:30:25","slug":"percival-everett-american-academy-of-arts-and-letters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/news\/stories\/percival-everett-american-academy-of-arts-and-letters\/","title":{"rendered":"Celebrated novelist Percival Everett elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n    \n                                          \n\n  \n    \n\n\n\n\n\n\n<div\n  class=\"cc--component-container cc--article-hero \"\n\n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  >\n  <div class=\"c--component c--article-hero\"\n    \n      >\n\n    \n<div class=\"inner-wrapper\">\n          \n<div class=\"f--field f--image\">\n\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n              \n      <img\n                            data-src=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2023\/05\/percival_aaal_newsite-768x432.jpg\"\n          data-srcset=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2023\/05\/percival_aaal_newsite-1920x1080.jpg 1920w,https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2023\/05\/percival_aaal_newsite-1280x720.jpg 1280w,https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2023\/05\/percival_aaal_newsite-768x432.jpg 768w\"          data-sizes=\"(min-width:1200px) 75vw, (min-width:768px) 83vw, 100vw\"          class=\"lazyload\"\n        \n                  alt=\"A photo of Percival Everett\"\n        \n        \n                                      \/>\n\n    \n    \n  \n  \n\n<\/div>\n  \n      <div class=\"image-caption\">\n          \n<div class=\"f--field f--description\">\n\n    \n  Acclaimed writer and USC Dornsife faculty member Percival Everett has been elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters. 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Photo: John Davis\/Windham-Campbell Prizes.)\n\n\n<\/div>\n    <\/div>\n  \n  <div class=\"text-wrapper\">\n          <nav aria-label=\"Breadcrumb\" class=\"breadcrumbs\">\n        <ul>\n                      <li><a href=\"\/news\/stories\/\">News<\/a><\/li>\n                      <li><a href=\"\/news\/stories\/\/?category=faculty\">Faculty<\/a><\/li>\n                  <\/ul>\n      <\/nav>\n    \n              \n<div class=\"f--field f--page-title\">\n\n    \n  <h1>Celebrated novelist Percival Everett elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters<\/h1>\n\n\n<\/div>\n    \n          <div class=\"subtitle\">\n            \n<div class=\"f--field f--description\">\n\n    \n  A USC Dornsife Distinguished Professor of English and author of \u201cTelephone,\u201d \u201cThe Trees\u201d and \u201cAmerican Desert,\u201d Everett joins a select handful of notable figures in literature, music, art and architecture elected this year.\n\n\n<\/div>\n      <\/div>\n    \n           <strong class=\"author-field\"><span >By<\/span><a href=\"mailto:communication@dornsife.usc.edu\">Darrin S. Joy<\/a><\/strong>\n    \n          <span class=\"post-date-field\">May 5, 2023<\/span>\n      <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n  <\/div><\/div>\n\n  \n    \n\n\n\n\n\n\n<div\n  class=\"cc--component-container cc--social-share \"\n\n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  >\n  <div class=\"c--component c--social-share\"\n    \n      >\n\n    \n  <div class=\"content-wrapper\">\n    <span class=\"a2a_kit a2a_kit_size_32 addtoany_list\" style=\"line-height: 32px;\">\n      <span class=\"title\">\n        Share\n      <\/span>\n                        <a class=\"a2a_button_copy_link\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"\/#copy_link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"Link\">\n            <span class=\"a2a_svg a2a_s__default a2a_s_copy_link\">\n              <svg height=\"19\" viewBox=\"0 0 19 19\" width=\"19\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\"><path d=\"m7.43475275 9.52380952-2.17490843 2.26076008c-1.08745421 1.058837-1.68841575 2.518315-1.68841575 4.0350275 0 1.5167124.60096154 2.9475732 1.68841575 4.0350274 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href=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/cwphd\/percival-everett\/\">Percival Everett<\/a>, Distinguished Professor of <a href=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/engl\/\">English<\/a> at the USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences, has been elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters.<\/p>\n<p>Founded in 1898, the academy stands as an honor society of the country\u2019s leading writers, artists, composers and architects.<\/p>\n<p>Everett is one of just 19 individuals \u2014 only six of whom are in the literature category \u2014 elected as members this year.<\/p>\n<p>He is the fourth USC faculty member elected to the academy and the second at USC Dornsife. (Distinguished Professor Emeritus of English and Writer in Residence Emeritus TC Boyle was <a href=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/news\/stories\/549\/wit-gets-its-due\/\">elected in 2009<\/a>.)<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI believe that the arts make us better, smarter,\u201d Everett said. \u201cI feel fortunate to be able to make a living as an artist and so participate in this ongoing discourse.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Everett, whose research centers on American studies and critical theory, has authored 34 books as well as more than 70 shorter works including poems, essays and short stories.<\/p>\n<p>His writing has garnered numerous awards, including the PEN\/Oakland-Josephine Miles Award for Excellence in Literature for his novel <em>Big Picture<\/em> (Graywolf Press, 1996), the Pushcart Prize for his 1996 article \u201cThe Appropriation of Cultures,\u201d and his first Hurston\/Wright Foundation Legacy Award in 2001 for <em>Erasure<\/em> (UPNE, 2001).<\/p>\n<p><em>Erasure<\/em> also earned Everett an Academy Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters.<\/p>\n<p>He earned a second Hurston\/Wright Foundation Legacy Award in 2010 for <em>I Am Not Sidney Poitier<\/em> (Graywolf Press, 2009), and a third in 2021 for <em>Telephone<\/em> (Graywolf Press, 2020), a novel that placed him among the 2021 finalists for a Pulitzer Prize.<\/p>\n<p>He earned a National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellowship <a href=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/news\/stories\/1594\/percival-everett-awarded-nea-grant\/\">in 2014<\/a> and a Guggenheim Fellowship <a href=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/news\/stories\/2040\/usc-dornsife-faculty-receive-guggenheim-fellowships\/\">a year later<\/a>, and he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences <a href=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/news\/stories\/2318\/usc-dornsifes-everett-and-st-john-elected-to-the-american-academ\/\">in 2016<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The National Book Critics Circle presented him with the Ivan Sandrof Lifetime Achievement Award in 2022.<\/p>\n<p>After earning an AB in philosophy at the University of Miami in 1977 and a master\u2019s degree from Brown University\u2019s Graduate Writing Program in 1982, Everett held faculty positions at the University of Kentucky, University of Notre Dame and the University of California, Riverside. 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