Biography
American Pulitzer Prize-winning writer and Distinguished Professor of English at USC. Known for novels Erasure, I Am Not Sidney Poitier, The Trees, and James
Sample Works
Roundtable Appearances
November 16, 2019 · ▶ Video
Emergence of Empathy: Encountering The Other Through Fiction
The event explores how empathy -- derived from Greek "pathos" meaning "to endure" -- functions through fiction. Coined in 1909 by psychologist Edward Bradford Titchner as a...
Percival Everett, Siri Hustvedt, Yiyun Li, Joseph Luzzi, Alberto Manguel