Thrity Umrigar, best-selling author and the Armington Professor of English at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, reads from her works Oct. 5 and participates in a moderated talk Oct. 6. Both events will be in the Bayley Room on the second floor of Beeghly Library, 43 Rowland Ave., Delaware. Umrigar’s novels include “Bombay Time,” “The Space Between Us,” “If Today Be Sweet,” “The Weight of Heaven,” “The World We Found,” “The Story Hour,” and, most recently, “Everybody’s Son.” Her memoir, “First Darling of the Morning,” was a finalist for the Society of Midland Authors Award. Umrigar also has been named a finalist for the PEN Open Book Award, and she has earned the Cleveland Arts Prize, Lambda Literary Award, and Seth Rosenberg Prize. Learn more at http://umrigar.com. Her visit represents the 2017-2018 Katherine Kearney Carpenter Lecture, sponsored by the OWU Department of English. Admission is free. Learn more at www.owu.edu/English.