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Dept. of English Visiting Writers Series presents author Percival Everett
(Special Event)
Please join the Virginia Tech Department of English's Visiting Writers Series for a reading by author Percival Everett at 7 PM Wednesday, September 17 in the Virginia Bioinformatics Institute Conference Center (Address: 1015 Life Science Circle).
Percival Everett is the author of more than twenty novels, three collections of short fiction, and two volumes of poetry. Among his novels, all published by Graywolf, are Percival Everett by Virgil Russell, Assumption, I Am Not Sidney Poitier, The Water Cure, Wounded, Glyph, Erasure, Zulus, Watershed, and God's Country. His poetry collections are Swimming Swimmers Swimming and re: f(gesture), both published by Red Hen Press.
Everett is the recipient of the PEN Center USA Award for Fiction, the Academy Award from an American Academy of Arts and Letters, the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award, The Believer Book Award and a New American Writing Award. His stories have been included in the Pushcart Prize Anthology and Best American Short Stories. He is currently Distinguished Professor of English at the University of Southern California.
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