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Princeton University Public Lecture: Percival Everett, Pulitzer Prize-Winning Author

Wednesday March 25, 2026
5:00 PM - 6:30 PM

Spencer Trask Lectures Series

Percival Everett is a distinguished professor of English at the University of Southern California. He achieved his most recent acclaim for his 2024 novel "James," a reinvented version of Mark Twain's "Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" told from the perspective of Jim, the runaway slave. "James" won the Kirkus Prize for Fiction, the National Book Award for Fiction, and the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. The film "American Fiction," which won a 2024 Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay and was nominated for Best Picture, was based on Everett's 2001 novel, "Erasure."

Lectures are held from 5 to 6:30 p.m. in McCosh Hall, Room 50. No tickets or reservations are required.

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