2010 Presenters
Joyce Carol Oates
Joyce Carol Oates is a recipient of 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 the Mulvaneys and Blonde (a finalist for the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize), and the New York Times bestsellers The Falls and The Gravedigger’s Daughter. 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 The Kenyon Review Award for Literary Achievement, and in 2006 she received the Chicago Tribune Lifetime Achievement Award.
The Booklist starred review for Oates’s latest collection of short stories, Sourland, calls it a “trenchant book of cruel fairy tales in which people are severely tested, profoundly punished, and tragically transformed.”
Her new collection of short stories entitled, Give Me Your Heart, will be released in January 2011.
Joyce Carol Oates: Reviews and Articles from the Archives of The New York Times
Oates in the Academy of Achievement
The New York Times interviews Oates
The Arch Literary Journal interviews Oates
Video: Oates discusses writing characters
