Susan Lucci, "All My Life: A Memoir." 7 p.m. April 4. Lecture and signing. Members $5, nonmembers, $10, reservations requested. Margaret Mitchell House and Museum, 990 Peachtree St. N.E., Atlanta. 404-814-4150, www.margaretmitchellhouse.com.
The soap opera star’s memoir of a life in the spotlight as Erica Kane on ABC-TV’s “All My Children.”
Anna Jean Mayhew, "The Dry Grass of August." 7:30 p.m. April 5. Reading and signing. Free. Bound to Be Read Books, 481-B Flat Shoals Ave. S.E., Atlanta. 404-522-0877, www.boundtobereadbooks.com.
Mayhew's strong debut is a riveting description of Southern life in the throes of segregation.
Sarah Vowell, "Unfamiliar Fishes." 6:30 p.m. April 5. SCAD's Ivy Hall Writers Series, lecture and signing. Free. SCAD Atlanta, Events Space, Fourth Floor, Building C, 1600 Peachtree St. N.W., Atlanta. 404-253-3100, www.scad.edu/experience/events.
The punk historian and author of “The Wordy Shipmates” and “The Partly Cloudy Patriot” discusses the Americanization of Hawaii in the 1800s by New England missionaries whose goal was to remake the island paradise in their own image -- chiefly by eradicating an environmentally friendly, laid-back native culture.
Jonathan Jordan, "Brothers, Rivals, Victors." 7 p.m. April 6. Discussion and signing. Free. Jimmy Carter Presidential Library, 441 Freedom Parkway, Atlanta. 404-865-7100, www.jimmycarterlibrary.gov.
A comprehensive look at the unique friendship and intense rivalry between three of America’s greatest generals -- Dwight D. Eisenhower, George Patton and Omar Bradley -- as they struggled to defeat the Nazis.
Meg Wolitzer, "The Uncoupling." 7 p.m. April 6. Lecture and signing. Members $5, nonmembers, $10, reservations requested. Margaret Mitchell House and Museum, 990 Peachtree St. N.E., Atlanta. 404-814-4150, www.margaretmitchellhouse.com.
Talk about desperate housewives! When a local high school decides to perform Aristophanes’ "Lysistrata," a comedy in which women withhold sex to persuade their men of the perils of war, a mysterious spell arises during rehearsals that creates a similar dynamic among the women of Stellar Plains, N.J.
Pearl McHaney, University in the Library Series. 7:15 p.m. April 7. Lecture and signing. Free. Decatur Library Auditorium, 215 Sycamore St., Decatur. 404-370-8450, Ext. 2225; www.georgiacenterforthebook.org.
One of America’s pre-eminent literary scholars will speak on the life and work of playwright Tennessee Williams (1911-1983), whose plays include “Cat on a Hot Tin Roof,” “The Glass Menagerie” and “A Streetcar Named Desire.”
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