HIGHLY ACCLAIMED AUTHOR JOYCE CAROL OATES
WILL GIVE A READING AT BARD COLLEGE ON MONDAY, OCTOBER 3
ANNANDALE-ON-HUDSON, N.Y.—Joyce Carol Oates, one of thecountry's most influential authors of fiction and essays, winner of theNational Book Award, and author of WeWere the Mulvaneys, Blonde, and A Widow’s Story, will read from herrecent book, Sourland, at BardCollege on Monday, October 3. The NewYork Times said that Sourland“could be used as a master class in the art of pure suspenseful storytelling.”Oates will be introduced by novelist and Bard literature professor BradfordMorrow. The reading, presented as part of Morrow’s Innovative ContemporaryFiction Reading Series, takes place at 4 p.m. in Olin Auditorium. It is free andopen to the public; no reservations are required.
Joyce Carol Oates is the author of more than 50novels. She has written some of the most enduring fiction of our time,including the national bestsellers WeWere the Mulvaneys and Blonde (afinalist for the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize), and the New York Times bestsellers The Falls (winner of the 2005 PrixFemina Etranger) and The Gravedigger’sDaughter. Her many literary awards include the National Book Award,PEN/Malamud Award for Excellence in Short Fiction, O. Henry Prize for continuedachievement in the short story, and the Kenyon Review Award for LiteraryAchievement. She is the Roger S. Berlind ’52 Professor in the Humanities atPrinceton University and has been a member of the American Academy of Arts andLetters since 1978. She received the Common Wealth Award for DistinguishedService in Literature in 2003, the ChicagoTribune Lifetime Achievement Award in 2006, and the National HumanitiesMedal in 2010.
For more information about this event contact conjunctions@bard.eduor call 845-758-7054.
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