The Norfolk Public Library has announced that Margot Li­vesey, the author of The House on Fortune Street as well as give other novels, will be appearing at the Library at 7 p.m. on Wednesday, March 31. Livesey has published six novels: Homework, Criminals, The Missing World, Eva Moves the Furniture, Banishing Verona and The House on Fortune Street.

She has taught at Boston University, Bowdoin College, Bran­deis University, Carnegie Mellon, Cleveland State, Emerson Col­lege, and the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. She is currently a distin­guished writer in residence at Emerson College. The House on Fortune Street was the winner of the 2009 L.L. Winship/PEN New England Award. Alice Sebold has said, “Every novel of Margot Livesey’s is, for her readers, a joyous discovery. Her work radiates with compas­sion and intelligence and always, deliciously, mystery.”