Styron will read from his work at 8 p.m. Wednesday, March 21, at the Koger Center for the Arts. Sue Grafton will read from her fiction at 8 p.m. at the Koger Center. A reception will follow Kincaid's reading. The festival is sponsored jointly by USC's department of English and Thomas Cooper Society.
All events are free and open to the public.
Murray, Australia's leading living poet, has won the Australian National Poetry Award, the Australian Literary Society Gold Medal, the T.S. Eliot Prize for the U.K. and the Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry. De Salvo, on the USC faculty for the spring semester, is a noted scholar, critic and memoirist. Kincaid, born and educated in Antigua in the West Indies, moved to the United States when she was 16. Or visit the Writers Festival Web site .