All events are free and open to the public.

This year's featured authors include Susan Vreeland, Mark Strand, and Stanley Crouch.

Vreeland recently retired after a 30-year career teaching high school English in San Diego. Her first novel, What Love Sees, appeared in 1988 and was made into a CBS television movie. Her three subsequent biographical novels, The Girl in Hyacinth Blue, Artemisia, and The Forest Lover— about the painters Vermeer, Artemisia Gentilleschi, and Emily Carr, respectively— have been both commercial and critical successes.

Strand has written nine books of poems which have brought him many honors and grants, including the 1999 Pulitzer Prize for his book of poems Blizzard of One. He was chosen as Poet Laureate of the United States in 1990. He currently teaches in the Committee on Social Thought at the University of Chicago.

Crouch is a novelist; essayist; musician; longtime jazz critic for The Village Voice; controversial columnist for The New Yorker, New Republic, and New York Daily News; influential television commentator on 60 Minutes and on Ken Burns' PBS series on jazz. He has received a MacArthur Foundation "genius" award and is co-founder of the "Jazz at Lincoln Center" series. His book, The All-American Skin Game, was nominated for a National Book Award.

For a complete schedule for this year's Fall Festival of Authors, go to www.cla.sc.edu/litfest/.

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