Percival Everett, distinguished professor of English at USC, received FFRF’s Emperor Has No Clothes Award, reserved for public figures who make known their dissent from religion. His latest novel, “James,” was published in March 2024 to great critical acclaim, winning both the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. His other titles include “Dr. No” (finalist for the NBCC Award for Fiction and winner of the PEN/ Jean Stein Book Award”), “The Trees” (finalist for the Booker Prize and the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction), “Telephone” (finalist for the Pulitzer Prize), “So Much Blue,” “Erasure” and “I Am Not Sidney Poitier.” He has received the NBCC Ivan Sandrof Life Achievement Award and The Windham Campbell Prize from Yale University. “American Fiction”, the feature film based on his novel “Erasure,” was released in 2023 and was given the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay. For more information on Everett, please visit www.prhspeakers.com.
