Joyce Carol Oates is an award-winning author of novels, plays, novellas, short story collections, poetry and non-fiction. She won the National Endowment for the Humanities medal in 2010. Photo credit: Dustin Cohen.
Celebrated writer Joyce Carol Oates makes a rare appearance at The City College of New York on Thursday, Nov. 14, 2024, at 6 p.m. in Shepard Hall’s room 95. Oates will be in conversation with Professor Mark J. Mirsky of CCNY’s English department. The event is free and open to the public.
Oates is a recipient of the National Medal of the Humanities, the National Book Critics Circle Lifetime Achievement Award, the National Book Award, and the Jerusalem Prize. She is the author of “Butcher” (Knopf, May 2024), as well as the national bestsellers “We Were the Mulvaneys,” “Blonde,” “The Falls,” “The Gravedigger's Daughter,” and “The Accursed.” She is the Roger S. Berlind Distinguished Professor of the Humanities emerita at Princeton University and has been a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters since 1978.
Mirsky is an award-winning author of 13 books, including fiction, short stories, novellas and essays. He is the founding editor of literary magazine "FICTION" and has been teaching literature and creative writing at CCNY for over 50 years.
The event is sponsored by CCNY’s MFA in Creative Writing’s The David Dortort Fund and the Rifkind Center for the Humanities and Arts.
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