There might not be a more fertile mind in American fiction today than Percival Everett. For more than two decades, he has published almost a book a year, including a farcical Western, a savage satire of the publishing industry, a children’s story spoofing counting books, retellings of the Greek myths of Medea and Dionysus, and a philosophical tract narrated by a four year-old. The Washington Post has called him “one of the most adventurously experimental of modern American novelists,” and has declared his most recent novel, THE WATER CURE, "his finest book to date." According to The Boston Globe, “He's literature’s NASCAR champion, going flat out, narrowly avoiding one seemingly inevitable crash only to steer straight for the next.”

Everett’s writing has earned him the PEN USA 2006 Literary Award (for his 2005 novel, Wounded), the Academy Award for Literature of the American Academy of Arts and Letters and the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award (for his 2001 novel, Erasure), the PEN/Oakland-Josephine Miles Award for Excellence in Literature (for his 1996 story collection, Big Picture) and the New American Writing Award (for his 1990 novel, Zulus). He has served as a judge for, among others, the 1997 National Book Award for fiction and the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction in 1991. He is Distinguished Professor of English at the University of Southern California, where he teaches creative writing, American Studies, and critical theory.