

# Event Details

- **Event Name**: ILP: Beyond the Page with Percival Everett
- **Event Start and End Date**: Thu, 19 Mar, 2026 at 07:00 pm – Thu, 19 Mar, 2026 at 08:00 pm (-05:00)
- **Event Description**: Industrious, irreverent and humble (though he may deny the accusation), Percival Everett, like his fiction, defies categorization. Join Illinois Libraries Present on Thursday, March 19, at 7 p.m. to go behind the page with Everett.

His most recent novel, “James,” earned both the Pulitzer Prize for fiction and the National Book Award, and his 2001 novel “Erasure” inspired the film “American Fiction,” which received the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay in 2024. Everett’s other titles include “Dr. No,” “The Trees” (finalist for the Booker Prize and the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction), “Telephone” (finalist for the Pulitzer Prize), “So Much Blue” and “I Am Not Sidney Poitier.” 

Despite these accomplishments, Everett remains devoted to reviewing his own work critically, and indeed his writing process involves intensive research and revision.

Brandis Friedman will moderate the event. Friedman is a writer and anchor for WTTW’s Chicago Tonight and Chicago Tonight: Black Voices and also serves as a champion for libraries.

This event is made possible by ILP, a statewide collaboration among public libraries offering premier events. ILP is funded in part by a grant awarded by the Illinois State Library, a department of the Office of Secretary of State, using funds provided by the U.S. Institute of Museum and Library Services, under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act (LSTA).

This program will be presented online via Zoom. It is free and open to patrons of an Illinois library, but registration is required to receive the Zoom link. Please make sure to mark “Harvard Diggins Library” when registering, so the library may receive participation credit.

Register here: https://www.harvard-diggins.org/event/beyond-the-page-with-percival-everett

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- **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/harvard/ilp-beyond-the-page-with-percival-everett/200029828202857
- **Event Categories**: art, literary-art, entertainment, it
- **Interested Audience**: 
  - total_interested_count: 1

## Ticket Details

- **Ticket URL**: https://www.harvard-diggins.org/event/beyond-the-page-with-percival-everett?utm_source=AllEvents.in&utm_medium=event-discovery-platform&utm_campaign=harvard-events

## Event venue details

- **city**: Harvard
- **state**: IL
- **country**: United States
- **location**: 900 E McKinley St, Harvard, IL, United States, Illinois 60033
- **lat**: 42.42547
- **long**: -88.60199
- **full address**: 900 E McKinley St, Harvard, IL, United States, Illinois 60033

## Event Organizer details

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- **organizer**: Harvard Diggins Library (https://allevents.in/org/harvard-diggins-library/11013652)

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## FAQs

- **Q**: When is the event happening?
  - **A:** Thu, 19 Mar, 2026 at 07:00 pm (-05:00)
- **Q**: Where is the event happening?
  - **A:** 900 E McKinley St, Harvard, IL, United States, Illinois 60033
- **Q**: Who is organizing the event?
  - **A:** Harvard Diggins Library
- **Q**: What type of event is this?
  - **A:** art, literary-art, entertainment, it
- **Q**: Where can I find ticket details about ILP: Beyond the Page with Percival Everett ?
  - **A:** You can find ticket details about this event on AllEvents.

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