John Banville, winner of the 2005 Man Booker Prize for his novel, The Sea, is the author of more than 20 highly regarded books, including the novels The Book of Evidence, Eclipse, Shroud, and The Untouchable. Banville is also the author of Christine Falls, The Silver Swan, and many other mysteries under the pen name Benjamin Black. He came to Houston to read from his novel The Infinities. Abraham Verghese, an Ethopian-born South Asian physician, is the author of two acclaimed memoirs, My Own Country and The Tennis Partner, a New York Times Notable Book. He came to Houston to share his debut novel, Cutting for Stone. The reading was followed by an on-stage interview, conducted by Houston novelist Robert Cremins.