Has anyone heard of Percival Everett...?

Question

He is great! I read American desert, Erasure, and I'm reading Glyph now. Ok, Glyph has a few words I don't understand and I'm sure I don't get everything he means, but it doesn't matter because you can still enjoy it on another level.

Has anyone read him?

I also like him because he is black (read on, it's not racist) and in Erasure, he wrote about a character who was a black writer and professor whose identity didn't rely on the fact that he was black. The character also made fun of black writers who only wrote about stereotyped black people, and of white people who only recognise a black people's ability to write only if he/she deals with African-American issues. Also, the character is not perfect, he is a bit full of himsekf. Basically, he is normal. Whatever his skin colour. I think Everett is great!

Answer 1

I'd never heard of him before, I like your description of his work; it sounds interesting, real. And this web site I found says he's also written some short fiction. Maybe I'll give that a try, see how I like him. Thanks for bringing him up.

Answer 2

Percival Everett (born 1956 in Columbia, South Carolina) is an American writer and professor.
Life

Everett grew up in Columbia, South Carolina and attended the University of Miami, majoring in philosophy and biochemistry. He also attended the University of Oregon, where he pursued a graduate education in philosophy. He has an MFA from Brown University. He began his career as a jazz and blues musician, worked as a ranch hand, and was later a high school math teacher. Everett is a writer, a professor, a painter, and he trains mules. He lives in Los Angeles. He is married to Danzy Senna, novelist, author of Caucasia and Symptomatic.
Career

Everett is a professor of English at the University of Southern California, and he is fiction editor of Callaloo.