Viet Thanh Nguyen

Viet Thanh Nguyen is the author of the Pulitzer Prize–winning novel The Sympathizer, as well as a sequel, The Committed, a short story collection, The Refugees, and most recently A Man of Two Faces, his first memoir. He is a professor of English at the University of Southern California, and he also held the 2023–24 Charles Eliot Norton Professorship in Poetry at Harvard, for which he delivered a series of lectures entitled “To Save and to Destroy: On Writing as an Other.”