Conferences
Fall 2026 Cormac McCarthy Society Conference
"The World Entire: Cormac McCarthy's Expanding Influence"
October 8-10, 2026
Crown Plaza Hotel, Knoxville, TN
In early fall, we’ll return to the Crown Plaza Hotel in Knoxville for the 2026 Cormac McCarthy Society Conference. Click here to see a draft program!
Registration for the conference will be $160 for Society members and $185 for non-members until September 8, after which they will be $185 and $210, respectively.
Register now!
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The Crowne Plaza Hotel in Knoxville is offering a conference rate of $142/night for a room with two queen beds. Click here to make a reservation.
If the room block fills up, there are a number of other hotel options nearby. Information on those can be found here.
Our keynoter will be Richard Grant, and Tracy Daugherty will be a featured speaker.
Richard Grant is the author of a number of books, most recently A Race to the Bottom of Crazy: Dispatches from Arizona and The Deepest South of All: True Stories from Natchez, Mississippi. He is the author of the September 2025 Smithsonian article about Cormac McCarthy’s library, which is the basis for his forthcoming book with Simon & Schuster, tentatively titled Cormac: A Journey into the Private World of a Literary Genius.
Tracy Daugherty is the author of biographies of Donald Barthelme, Joan Didion, Joseph Heller, Billy Lee Brammer, and the astronomer and Dante scholar Mary Evershed. His most recent publication is the portrait of a Texas icon, Larry McMurtry: A Life. His biography of McCarthy, Cormac McCarthy: A Legacy Revisited, will be published by St. Martin’s Press on October 6, 2026—immediately before we convene in Knoxville!
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