Celebrating the power of words and the creative spirit. . .
. . .in a landscape that Hemingway loved.
The annual Hemingway Distinguished Lecture is presented each July, honoring the month of Ernest Hemingway’s birth and death.
2025 Distinguished Lecture: PERCIVAL EVERETT
July 8, 2025
This year, The Community Library welcomes Percival Everett, a Distinguished Professor of English at the University of Southern California.
His latest novel, JAMES, was published in March of 2024 to critical acclaim. His other titles include 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. 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.
The lecture will be presented outdoors on the Library’s Donaldson Robb Family Lawn. The program will also be livestreamed, and a recording will be available for two weeks upon request.
Registration to attend in-person opens on Monday, April 21. Click here to learn more.
