The School of Humanities and Sciences and the Department of Writing are pleased to present a reading by acclaimed novelist Percival Everett, Distinguished Visiting Writer in Fiction.
Everett will read from his new collection of stories, Half a Drink of Water, at 7:30pm on Thursday, April 7th in Clark Lounge in Campus Center. The reading is free and open to the public. A question-and-answer period and book-signing will follow.
Percival Everett is Distinguished Professor of English at the University of Southern California and the author of nearly thirty books, including Percival Everett by Virgil Russell, Assumption, Erasure, I Am Not Sidney Poitier, Glyph, and most recently the short story collection Half an Inch of Water (Graywolf, 2015). He is the recipient of the Academy Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award, the Believer Book Award, and the 2006 PEN USA Center Award for Fiction. NPR has called him “one of the most gifted and versatile of contemporary writers.” He lives in Los Angeles.
For more information about the Distinguished Visiting Writers Series or to request special accommodations, contact Eleanor Henderson at 274-3324 or ehenderson@ithaca.edu. We ask that requests for accommodations be made as soon as possible.
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