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Red Hen Press Hosts Intimate Dinner with Pulitzer Prize Winner Percival Everett

Monday, July 07, 2025 at 5:30 p.m.

Cost: $1000.00/Person

Sponsor: Red Hen Press

For more information call: 626-356-4760

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Pasadena-based nonprofit independent publishing company Red Hen Press will host an intimate dinner with Pulitzer Prize winner Percival Everett at Mary Urquhart’s home in South Pasadena. Cocktails will be served at 5:30 PM, with dinner at 6:30 PM. Seats for the dinner are $1000 per person. Availability is limited. Please email Brooke Erdmann, Red Hen Press Development Associate, at brooke.erdmann@redhen.org for tickets and more information. Red Hen Press has published Percival Everett’s poetry collections for over twenty years, including his most recent bestselling collection Sonnets for a Missing Key, which Entertainment Weekly describes as “a lyrical book of must-read sonnets” and the New York Times notes is “the Everett way.” Percival Everett is a Distinguished Professor of English at USC. His most recent novels include James (Pulitzer Prize winner), Dr. No (finalist for the NBCC Award for Fiction and winner of the PEN/ Jean Stein Book Award), The Trees (finalist for the Booker Prize and the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction), Telephone (finalist for the Pulitzer Prize), So Much Blue, Erasure, and "I Am Not Sidney Poitier". His most recent poetry collections include The Book of Training by Colonel Hap Thompson (winner of the 2020 IPPY Award in Most Original Concept) and Trout’s Lie. He has received the NBCC Ivan Sandrof Life Achievement Award and The Windham Campbell Prize from Yale University. American Fiction, the feature film based on his novel Erasure, was released in 2023 and was awarded the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay. He lives in Los Angeles with his wife, the writer Danzy Senna, and their children.