McCreight Lecture in the Humanities

As part of its year-long celebration of fifty years serving West Virginians through the humanities, the Council is proud to announce novelist and poet Percival Everett as this year’s Betsy K. McCreight speaker.

Percival Everett is the author of more than thirty books of fiction and poetry. He is a Pulitzer Prize finalist—among many other awards—and his novel Erasure was recently adapted into the Oscar-winning film American Fiction. His latest novel, James, is a reimagining of Mark Twain’s Adventures of Huckleberry Finn from the perspective of Huck’s enslaved friend Jim. Released in March 2024, James became an instant New York Times Bestseller. Both the New York Times and Chicago Tribune laud the novel as “a masterpiece” that will “help redefine one of the classics of American literature.” Everett is a Distinguished Professor of English at the University of Southern California.

Admission is free, no RSVP required. Select Percival Everett titles will be sold at the door courtesy of Taylor Books of Charleston.