Best-selling author Emma Donoghue will present “Slippery Characters: Writing Historical Fiction in the Information Age” on April 9 at 7 p.m. in Fulton Hall, room 511. Donoghue is the author of the internationally acclaimed novel Room, among many other works. Her newest novel is Frog Music (Little, Brown and Company), a literary crime novel set in San Francisco, 1876. Her talk is sponsored by the Lowell Humanities Series. Read a Washington Post review of Frog Music.