West Virginia Humanities Council

2025 McCreight Lecture in the Humanities: Viet Thanh Nguyen

This fall, the Council is proud to host novelist and Pulitzer Prize winner Viet Thanh Nguyen as this year’s McCreight Lecturer on Thursday, October 23, 2025. Viet Thanh Nguyen’s novel The Sympathizer is a New York Times best seller and won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. Other honors include the Dayton Literary Peace Prize, the […]

2024 McCreight Lecture in the Humanities: Percival Everett

As part of its ongoing 50th anniversary programming, the West Virginia Humanities Council will host renowned novelist and poet Percival Everett for its annual McCreight Lecture in the Humanities on October 17 in Charleston. A Pulitzer Prize finalist and author of over thirty books, Everett released his latest novel this year: James, a reimagining of […]