Percival Everett

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Percival Everett (born 1956) is an American writer and Distinguished Professor of English at the University of Southern California.Everett lives in Los Angeles, California with his wife, novelist Danzy Senna.While completing his MFA degree at Brown University, Everett wrote his first novel, Suder (1983), about Craig Suder, a Seattle Mariners third baseman in major league slump, both on and off the field. Everett's second novel, Walk Me to the Distance (1985), was later re-interpreted with an altered plot as an ABC TV movie entitled Follow Your Heart. In this novel, David Larson returns from Vietnam and attempts to find the retarded son of a one-legged sheep rancher in Slut's Whole, Wyoming. Cutting Lisa (1986; re-issued 2000) begins with John Livesey meeting a man who has performed a caesarean section that prompts the protagonist to evaluate his relationships.