Styron, who will receive the Thomas Cooper Society Medal for Distinction in the Performing Arts, will speak at 8 p.m. tonight at the Koger Center. He was a good friend of Jim Dickey's, so he's had a relationship with the university over the years. Events are planned for the other writers in the series through Friday. Sue Grafton will read from her fiction at 8 p.m. at the Koger Center. Also on Friday, Jamaica Kincaid will read in the Belk Auditorium on the lower floor of The Darla Moore School of Business at 8 p.m, with a reception to follow.
All events are free and open to the public.
We're sure of that already because she just has a following among people interested in mystery writing. Not incidentally, USC is also home to professors Carol McGinniss Kay and Natalie Hevener Kaufman, who wrote the scholarly study G is for Grafton. Her books include Annie John, A Small Place, Lucy, The Autobiography of My Mother, My Brother and My Garden. A Memoir, which reportedly melds her own childhood experience of suffering blackouts with the classic Hitchcock film. DeSalvo also teaches a workshop in non-fiction autobiographical writing every Wednesday.