The University of South Carolina’s Fall Literary Festival, now in its 18th season, brings three major authors to campus over the course of a few weeks every year. This fall authors Terrance Hayes (Oct. 26), Richard Michelson (Oct. 31.), and Lydia Millet (Nov. 9) visit campus.

Michelson will read Tuesday, October 31. A multi-faceted author of books for children, teens, and adults, Michelson is the only writer ever awarded both the Sydney Taylor Gold and Silver Medals in a single year (2009) from the Association of Jewish Librarians. His books for children include As Good As Anybody: Martin Luther King Jr. and Abraham Joshua Heschel’s Amazing March toward Freedom, and A is for Abraham: A Jewish Family Alphabet. His most recent children’s publications include The Language of Angels: A Story About the Reinvention of Hebrew (2017) and Fascinating: The Life of Leonard Nimoy (2016). Both have won Junior Library Guild Gold Medals.

All readings are free, begin at 6 p.m. and are held in the Ernest F. Hollings Special Collections Library, which is entered through Thomas Cooper Library.

The festival is co-hosted by University Libraries and the Department of English, and sponsored by a generous anonymous donor, allowing each program to be free and open to the public.