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Portland Arts & Lectures 2025–26: Percival Everett

Wed, Nov 12, 2025 from 7:30 pm - 9:00 pm PST
1037 SW Broadway Portland, OR 97205

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Literary Arts is pleased to present Percival Everett as the second speaker of the 2025-26 Portland Arts & Lectures series.

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Please note: a subscription to the entire 2025-26 Portland Arts & Lectures series is required to attend this event. Subscriptions are now SOLD OUT at all levels.


 

Percival Everett

Percival Everett

Percival Everett is a Distinguished Professor of English at USC and the National Book Award winning author of James. His previous novels, Erasure, Dr. No, and The Trees, have been finalists for the Pulitzer, Booker, and National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction awards.  In 2022 he received Yale’s Windham Campbell Prize. Everett resides in Los Angeles with his wife, author Danzy Senna, and their children.

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