Percival Everett is a Distinguished Professor of English at the University of Southern California and an author of some thirty books, mostly novels. In his career he has won numerous awards, honors, and fellowships, among the most recent being the Distinguished Achievement Award from the Western Literature Association in 2018. As he puts it, “if you do a thing long enough that just happens.” Here are a few of his titles: I Am Not Sidney Poitier, Glyph, Erasure, So Much Blue and Percival Everett by Virgil Russell.
Percival Everett
Distinguished Professor of English, University of Southern California
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Like sympathy, empathy derives from the Greek root pathos meaning “to endure or to undergo.” It was coined in 1909 by a psychologist at Cornell University, Edward Bradford Titchner, who suggested the term as a translation of the German Einfühlung. According to Titchner, this emotional impulse to “feel into” something or someone is a strategy... read more! »