UA event features noted author Oates

Author Joyce Carol Oates will read from her work April 21 at the Fayetteville Town Center.

The 7 p.m. event, part of the University of Arkansas Programs in Creative Writing and Translation Distinguished Readers Series, is free and open to the public. No tickets are required to attend.

Since 1963, 40 of Oates’ books have been included in The New York Times’ list of notable books of the year. Her novel Them won the National Book Award in 1970. Other honors include two O.Henry Prizes, the PEN/Malamud Award for Excellence in Short Fiction, and the M.L. Rosenthal Award from the National Institute of Arts and Letters.

In 2009, Oates was given the Ivan Sandrof Lifetime Achievement Award by the National Book Critics Circle, and the next year she was awarded the National Humanities Medal for her contributions to American letters.

Oates serves as the Roger S. Berlind Distinguished Professor of the Humanities at Princeton University, where she has taught since 1978.

Arkansas, Pages 18 on 04/04/2014

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