Born: 1956, Fort Gordon, GeorgiaLives: Los Angeles, California
Percival Everett was born in Fort Gordon, Georgia. He studied philosophy at the University of Miami and received a master's degree in fiction from Brown University in 1982.
He is a Distinguished Professor of English at the University of Southern California and lives in Los Angeles. His novels include Erasure, I Am Not Sidney Poitier, The Trees and James, which retells Mark Twain's Adventures of Huckleberry Finn from Jim's point of view.