J. Everett Prewitt is a Vietnam veteran and a former Army officer. Everett’s debut novel Snake Walkers placed first for fiction in four different literary contests and won the Bronze award for General Fiction in ForeWord Magazine's Book of the Year contest. Snake Walkers was also honored by the Black Caucus of the American Library Association.
His second novel, A Long Way Back, was published in October 2015. It won six awards, including the Independent Publishers of New England first place award.
A second edition novella, Something About Ann, and a series of short stories related to A Long Way Back, including the award-winning The Last Time I Saw Willie, were published in January 2024. This novel was a finalist for three different awards.
His autobiography, titled A Life In The Sunshine, was published this year, January 2025.