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Joyce Carol Oates

Joyce Carol Oates is a recipient of the National Book Critics Circle Ivan Sandrof Lifetime Achievement Award, the National Book Award and the PEN/Malamud Award for Excellence in Short Fiction. She has written some of the most enduring fiction of our time, including the national bestsellers We Were Mulvaneys, Blonde, which was nominated for the National Book Award, and the New York Times bestseller, The Falls, which won the 2005 Prix Femina. She is the Roger S. Berlind Distinguished Professor of the Humanities at Princeton University and has been a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters since 1978. In 2003 she received the Common Wealth Award for Distinguished Service in Literature, and in 2006 she received the Chicago Tribune Lifetime Achievement Award.

Joyce Carol Oates reads in the Writers at Newark Reading Series with Henri Cole on Tuesday, September 27, 2011, 5:30-7pm, Multipurpose Room, Campus Center.