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Percival Everett | Chapel Hill

October 6, 2022 @ 7:30 pm - 8:30 pm

Free
Percival Everett, the 2022 Thomas Wolfe Prize Recipient is speaking in Chapel Hill on October 6, 7:30 pm, in Moeser Auditorium in Hill Hall at the University of North Carolina – Chapel Hill.

Everett’s stories have appeared in the Pushcart and Best American anthologies, and been featured on NPR’s Selected Shorts. His many honors include the Ivan Sandrof Lifetime Achievement Award from the National Book Critics Circle, the Dos Passos Prize, the PEN Center USA Award for Fiction, the PEN Oakland/Josephine Miles Literary Award, the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award for Fiction, and the Academy Award in Literature from The American Academy of Arts and Letters.

His most recent novel, The Trees, was recently short-listed for the Booker Prize.  The reading is free and open to the public.

Details

Date:
October 6, 2022
Time:
7:30 pm - 8:30 pm
Cost:
Free
Website:
https://englishcomplit.unc.edu/program/wolfe/

Venue

Moeser Auditorium