Percival Everett is winner of the Academy Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters and author of sixteen novels and three collections of short fiction, and one volume of poetry. His novels include "Wounded," "Glyph," "Erasure," "American Desert," "For Her Dark Skin," "Zulus," "The Weather and The Women Treat Me Fair," "Cutting Lisa," "Walk Me to the Distance," "Suder," "The One That Got Away," "Watershed" and "God's Country." Cosponsored by the Department of African American Studies.