Abraham Verghese in Seattle today Wednesday

Abraham Verghese’s debut nonfiction work, 1994’s “My Own Country: A Doctor’s Story,” chronicled his experiences with the arrival of the AIDS epidemic in rural Tennessee.

Seattle Arts and Lectures presents the physician-turned-author. Verghese’s debut nonfiction work, 1994’s “My Own Country: A Doctor’s Story,” chronicled his experiences with the arrival of the AIDS epidemic in rural Tennessee. His fiction debut, 2009’s “Cutting for Stone,” now in paperback, tells the story of two generations of doctors in Ethiopia and America. 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, Benaroya Hall, 200 University St., Seattle; $10-$70 (206-621-2230 or lectures.org).