The mourners are horrified, and the story inspires headline writers throughout the world.
At his funeral three days later, Theodore sits up in his coffin, apparently resurrected. He sails through the windshield, and his head is sliced cleanly from his body, his suicidal plans unwittingly thwarted. But on his way, he is hit headlong by an oncoming van. To date, the organization has awarded more than $4 billion to support artistic excellence, creativity and innovation for the benefit of individuals and communities.As American Desert opens, the novel's hero, Theodore Street, is driving toward the ocean, where he plans to walk into the waves and drown himself. The NEA was established by Congress in 1965 as an independent agency of the federal government. His most recent publication is Percival Everett by Virgil Russell (2013).
For his book Erasure (2001), he earned the Academy Award for Literature of the American Academy of Arts and Letters as well as the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award. She would like to eventually work on a film together, but we’ll see how that goes.”Įverett has published 25 books by Graywolf Press, including Assumption: A Novel (2011) I Am Not Sidney Poitier (2009) The Water Cure (2007) American Desert (2006) and Wounded (2005), for which he received the PEN USA 2006 Literary Award. Her name comes from the village on Corsica for which the submarine is named. “So you can see her connection to the story. “The story was brought to me by a French film director named Camille de Casabianca,” said Everett, who teaches in the PhD in Creative Writing and Literature program.
The vessel and her crew went on to fight with the Allied forces and participate in the liberation of Corsica. In 1942, the sub escaped from Toulon as German forces tried to seize the French fleet. He will investigate the story of the French World War II submarine Casabianca, which was part of the French fleet in the port of Toulon. (Photo/Philip Channing)Įverett will use the grant for his next fiction project based on true events, which involves a research trip to Algeria and the island of Corsica in the Mediterranean Sea. Percival Everett will use his National Endowment for the Arts creative writing grant to fund the research for his next book.
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