ABSTRACT
Joyce Carol Oates is a recipient of the National Humanities Medal, The Ivan Sandrof Lifetime Achievement Award, the National Book Award, and the PEN/Malamud Award for Excellence in Short Fiction. Joyce Carol Oates has written some of the most enduring fiction of time, including the national bestsellers We Were the Mulvaneys, Blonde, and The New York Times. She is 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 of Distinguished Service in Literature. In 2011 she was a recipient of the President's Medal in Humanities. The human will is extraordinary, and human imagination knows no bounds. A novel can gives that kind of space where people can take a person, know this person, but then, as people get farther and farther into the writing, people discover something else.
