Master Class: Writing Satire
Week 2 | W | CLA Alumni Hall Ballroom | Ages 18 and up
Prize winning and CLSC author, Percival Everett, will lead this hour-and-half master class on the craft of writing satire. Before his CLSC presentation on Dr. No, Everett will delve into his many years of writing and teaching to share some of his methods and intentions behind some of his most known and beloved novels: Trees, Telephone, I Am Not Sidney Poitier, A History of the African-American People (Proposed) by Strom Thurmond, among others. Participants will gain a better appreciation and knowledge on comedic writing and the genre of satire. While participants do not need to have read much of Everett’s works, they are encouraged to read Dr. No in advance.
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Percival Everett
Percival Everett is the author of more than thirty novels and story collections, including Dr. NO, The Trees, Telephone, So Much Blue, Percival Everett by Virgil Russell, I Am Not Sidney Poitier and Erasure. Everett has won the Ivan Sandrof Lifetime Achievement Award from the National Book Critics Circle, the Dos Passos Prize, the PEN/Jean Stein Book Award, the PEN Center USA Award for Fiction, the PEN Oakland/Josephine Miles Literary Award, the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award for Fiction, The 2010 Believer Book Award, the Premio Gregor von Rezzori, a Creative Capital Award, BS the Academy Award in Literature from The American Academy of Arts and Letters. He is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship. Everett is currently Distinguished Professor of English at University of Southern California. He lives in Los Angeles.
