Celebrated writer and Distinguished Professor of English elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters
USC Dornsife’s Percival Everett joins a select handful of notable figures in literature, music, art and architecture who were elected this year.
Percival Everett, Distinguished Professor of English at the USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences, has been elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters.
Founded in 1898, the academy stands as an honor society of the country’s leading writers, artists, composers and architects.
Everett is one of just 19 individuals — only six of whom are in the literature category — elected as members this year.