Percival Everett
Sign in to saveAmerican writer (born 1956)
Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1956
- Works
- 40
Top works
- James
- Body of Martin Aguilera
- Walk me to the distance
- Erasure
- The Water Cure
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 78
- Total plays
- 2,982
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Observation of Gravitational Waves from a Binary Black Hole Merger
· 2016 · cited 11,419x
- Global, regional, and national incidence, prevalence, and years lived with disability for 354 diseases and injuries for 195 countries and territories, 1990–2017: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017
· 2018 · cited 10,795x
- Antiinflammatory Therapy with Canakinumab for Atherosclerotic Disease
· 2017 · cited 8,329x
- Nivolumab versus Docetaxel in Advanced Nonsquamous Non–Small-Cell Lung Cancer
· 2015 · cited 7,822x
- Nivolumab versus Docetaxel in Advanced Squamous-Cell Non–Small-Cell Lung Cancer
· 2015 · cited 6,935x
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Quotes
- “There are two ways to approach the race thing. One is the unfortunate marginalization of American writers who happen to be black by calling them “black writers,” which tacitly acknowledges the existence of something else that would be mainstream, and so ghettoizes the work immediately. That is the unfortunate part. If one allows that, one fails to acknowledge the truth that there is no such thing as a “black American experience”…”
- “I have no desire to offer a political message in a novel. An artist cannot hide from her or his political beliefs; they will be in the work. But to presume that I am smart enough to preach a position runs counter to my artistic sense.”
- “I'm writing the West that exists. You have to remember that Westerns are complete mythology. If you talk about the historic West, a third of the cowboys were black. The railroad was built by the Irish and the Chinese ... and black workers. All of this supported by women, all the time, and yet you can find any number of Westerns that have no women in them.”
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