John Grisham, Elizabeth Edwards and Pulitzer Prize winners Douglas Blackmon, Rick Bragg and Elizabeth Strout are among the authors who will be on the UNC campus this week for the North Carolina Literary Festival, which runs Thursday through Sunday. More than 100 authors will participate in the free public festival, including Will Blythe, author of the Carolina-Duke basketball rivalry tome "To Hate Like This Is to Be Happy Forever," former North Carolina Poet Laureate Fred Chappell, forensic anthropologist Kathy Reichs and favorite North Carolina novelists Doris Betts and Clyde Edgerton. The festival, whose theme is "A Celebration of Reading and Writing," will include author readings, talks, exhibits, performances, book signings, sales and children's activities. A schedule of events, list of authors and lots more is at www.ncliteraryfestival.org.