Scottish-born novelist Margot Livesey will visit the Oregon State University campus on Friday, May 15, to read from her most recent work, the award-winning novel The House on Fortune Street.

A question-and-answer session and a book-signing will follow the reading, which begins at 7:30 p.m. in the Valley Library’s first floor rotunda. The event is free and open to the public.

Livesey was raised in a boys' school in the Scottish Highlands where her father taught and her mother was the school nurse. After getting her bachelor's degree at the University of York, Livesey worked in shops and restaurants while honing her craft as a fiction writer. Her efforts began to pay off in 1986, with the publication of her short story collection, Learning by Heart, published by Penguin/Canada.