Renowned furniture designer and author Mitchell Gold will visit the Fayetteville Public Library for a talk and book signing at 11 a.m. Dec. 12. Gold, who created the furniture company Mitchell Gold + Bob Williams, with his business partner Bob Williams, has authored several design books and recently released “Crisis: 40 Stories Revealing the Personal, Social, and Religious Pain and Trauma of Growing up Gay in America.”

Gold is also the founder of Faith in America, dedicated to ending religion-based prejudice against the gay community.