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About Joyce Carol OatesJoyce Carol Oates has won the National Medal of Humanities, the National Book Critics Circle Lifetime Achievement Award, the Chicago Tribune Lifetime Achievement 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, Blonde and 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. Her most recent novel is The Accursed, published in March 2013. The University of San Francisco website has an extensive archive of of Oates’s writing, manuscripts and reviews. Oates is also an Twitter and can be followed at @JoyceCarolOates.
