Percival Everett at The Open Book
The 2025 edition of The Open Book will conclude with a special appearance by Percival Everett, who will speak about his novel JAMES. An action-packed re-imagining of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, the novel was an immediate New York Times bestseller, was longlisted for the Booker Prize, and won both the Kirkus Prize and the National Book Award. As the Chicago Tribune declared, James is “a masterpiece that will help redefine one of the classics of American literature, while also being a major achievement on its own.” Percival Everett grew up right here in Columbia and is a graduate of A.C. Flora High School. He has gone on to publish two dozen novels in addition to poetry and other writings. Among his many honors are an NEA fellowship and a Guggenheim fellowship, and in 2021 he received the Ivan Sandrof Life Achievement Award from the National Book Critics Circle.
This event is free and open to all. It is sponsored by USC's College of Arts & Sciences and co-sponsored by the Humanities Collaborative and the South Caroliniana Library.
Event Links
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