“American Fiction” has been named the best adaptation of 2023 at the USC Libraries Scripter Awards, which took place on Saturday evening on the USC campus. The Scripter goes to the writer of the adapted screenplay as well as the author of the work upon which it is based, which meant that the award went to writer-director Cord Jefferson and to novelist Percival Everett,
Everett wrote the 2001 novel “Erasure” and currently serves as a Distinguished Professor of English at USC. He is the first sitting USC professor to win an award that has gone to a number of alumni, including Jason Reitman for “Up in the Air” and Larry Karaszewski and Scott Alexander for “The People vs.
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