Award-winning author
Honors Convocation
"Readings and commentary"
Thursday, May 27, 1999
Joyce Carol Oates, Roger S. Berlind Distinguished Professor of the Humanities at Princeton University, is one of America's most versatile writers and the author of a number of distinguished books in several genres. In addition to her novels and short story collections, she has published several volumes of poetry, plays, and books of literary criticism. Oates has earned much praise and many awards throughout her career, including the PEN/MalamudAward for Excellence in short fiction, the Rosenthal Award from the American Academy - Institute of Arts and Letters, a Guggenheim Fellowship, the O. Henry Prize for Continued Achievement in the Short Story, and the National Book Award forher novel them.
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