CHICAGO HUMANITIES FESTIVAL

We hope you will join us Oct. 27 for a stimulating day of discussion with the three winners of the Tribune’s 2018 literary prizes: Ron Chernow, George Saunders and Caroline Fraser. Starting Tuesday, subscribers will be among the first to get a crack at tickets for the events, presented as part of the Chicago Humanities Festival. Biographer and historian Ron Chernow will receive the Tribune’s Literary Award for lifetime achievement. Chernow, whose in-depth biographies are known for humanizing men who played instrumental roles in the development of the United States, is the author of six best-selling books, including his latest, “Grant.” Chernow will appear at 11 a.m., Oct. 27, at Symphony Center, in conversation with Tribune Publisher and Editor-in-Chief Bruce Dold. Saunders and Fraser will each win the Heartland Prize. The prize, established in 1988, is awarded annually to fiction and nonfiction authors for work that exemplifies the values of heartland America. This year’s fiction winner, Saunders’ “Lincoln in the Bardo,” imagines President Abraham Lincoln visiting the grave of his 11-year-old son, an act narrated by ghosts who populate the cemetery. Saunders will appear at 3 p.m., Oct. 27, at Symphony Center, in conversation with Tribune books editor Jennifer Day. Fraser’s “Prairie Fires: The American Dreams of Laura Ingalls Wilder” is a biography of the author of the Little House series that places Wilder’s legacy in context. Fraser will appear at 1 p.m., Oct. 27, at First United Methodist Church at the Chicago Temple, in conversation with Tribune columnist Mary Schmich. To purchase advance tickets starting at 10 a.m., Tuesday, subscribers may visit chicagohumanities.org and use the code Tribune18. Tickets will go on sale to the general public at 10 a.m., Sept. 25. For more information, visit chicago humanities.org.