Joyce Carol Oates will visit Ithaca College on Monday, Sept. 22, as the Department of Writing's distinguished visiting writer. Her free public reading of her work will be held at 7:30 p.m. in the Emerson Suites, Phillips Hall. Earlier, she will meet privately with writing majors and faculty to talk about her writing.
In a career that has spanned nearly four decades, Oates is the author of more than 70 works that include novels, short story collections, poetry, plays, literary criticism, and essays. Her writing has earned her much praise and many awards including the National Book Award for her novel them, 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, the Elmer Holmes Bobst Lifetime Achievement Award in Fiction, and the Bram Stoker Lifetime Achievement Award for horror fiction.
Since 1999, the Department of Writing's Distinguished Visiting Writers Series has hosted 10 writers; see the listing at Distinguished Visiting Writers Series.
For more information, contact Katharyn Howd Machan, associate professor of writing, 607-274-3325.
Contributed by Katharyn Howd Machan
