Cost: $15 General Admission, $7 Students

One of England’s foremost writers and a Dame of the British Empire, A. S. Byatt is the author of Possession, a novel that won both the Man Booker and the Irish Times/Aer Lingus International Fiction prizes in 1990, a critically acclaimed fictional quartet comprised of The Virgin In the Garden, Still Life, Babel Tower, and A Whistling Woman, the novel The Biographer’s Tale, and the short story collection Elementals. The Children’s Book—which was shortlisted for the 2009 Booker Prize—is a densely layered tale of a large and troubled family navigating an England on the verge of the First World War.

A. S. Byatt will be interviewed by Paula Marantz Cohen, Distinguished Professor of English, Drexel University.