Percival Everett is an American author of literary fiction novels and poetry. He wrote his first novel when was working on his AM degree at Brown University. He has been called “one of the most adventurously experimental of modern American novelists” by The Washington Post. Percival is also a Distinguished Professor of English at the University of Southern California. He describes himself as a demanding teacher, but also says the learning between student and teacher goes both ways.

Percival Everett made his debut as a published novelist in 1983 with the novel Suder. Below is a list of Percival Everett’s books in order of when they were originally released:

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Publication Order of Standalone Novels

Suder (1983)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Walk Me to the Distance (1985)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Cutting Lisa (1986)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Zulus (1990)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
For Her Dark Skin (1990)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
God's Country (1994)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Watershed (1996)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Frenzy (1996)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Glyph (1999)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Erasure (2001)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Grand Canyon, Inc. (2001)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
American Desert (2004)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
A History of the African-American People (2004)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Wounded (2005)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Water Cure (2007)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
I Am Not Sidney Poitier (2009)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Assumption (2011)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Body of Martin Aguilera (2013)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Percival Everett by Virgil Russell (2013)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
So Much Blue (2017)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Telephone (2020)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Trees (2021)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Dr. No (2022)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
James (2024)Description / Buy at Amazon.com

Publication Order of Short Story Collections

The Weather and Women Treat Me Fair (1987)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Big Picture (1996)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Damned if I Do (2004)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
re: f -gesture- (2005)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Swimming Swimmers Swimming (2011)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Half an Inch of Water (2015)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Trout's Lie (2015)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Two Stories (2018)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Book of Training by Colonel Hap Thompson of Roanoke, Va, 1843 (2019)Description / Buy at Amazon.com

Publication Order of Picture Books

The One that Got Away (1992)Description / Buy at Amazon.com

Publication Order of Non-Fiction Books

Parts of Brain (2015)Description / Buy at Amazon.com

Publication Order of Anthologies

Fiction International 34: Madness II(2001)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Fiction's Present(2007)Description / Buy at Amazon.com

Note: A History of the African-American People was co-authored by James Kincaid.

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Percival Everett Synopses: God’s Country is a standalone novel by Percival Everett. Curt Marder is a gambler, drinker, cheat, and would-be womanizer. It’s 1871, and he’s lost his farm, his wife, and his dog to a band of marauding hooligans. With nothing to live on but a desire to recover what is rightfully his, Marder is forced to enlist the help of the best tracker in the West: a black man named Bubba.

Watershed by Percival Everett is a standalone title. Somewhere north of Denver, Robert Hawks, a feisty and dangerously curious hydrologist, finds himself enmeshed in a fight over Native American treaty rights. What begins for Robert as a peaceful fishing interlude ends in murder and the disclosure of government secrets.

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