2021 PEN America Literary Gala Corporate honoree Robert Iger, left, playwright Wole Soyinka, actress Jodie Foster and PEN/Audible Literary Service Award recipient Dr. Hen...

The fall book season will be packed with new works by such high-profile authors as Jonathan Franzen, Sally Rooney and Colson Whitehead.

Soyinka will be attending this fall’s PEN America literary gala. “Wole Soyinka is a giant in world literature. His stature is proportionate to the momentous task of recog...