Joyce Carol Oates

Joyce Carol Oates Schedules Appearance at IWU

April 17, 2003

BLOOMINGTON, Ill. — Joyce Carol Oates, who has written some of the most enduring fiction of our time, will make two presentations in Bloomington/Normal on April 21, including a discussion and reading at Illinois Wesleyan's Ames Library.

The presentation was postponed from February when weather prevented Oates from traveling to Bloomington.

Oates is the author of such best-selling works as Broke Heart Blues, We Were the Mulvaneys, Black Water, and Because It Is Bitter and Because It Is My Heart. A recipient of the National Book Award and The PEN/ Malamud Award for Excellence in Short Fiction, and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, Oates is the Roger S. Berlind Distinguished Professor of the Humanities at Princeton University. In addition, she is a three-time finalist for the Pulitzer Prize.

Oates will lead an hour-long informal discussion at 2 p.m. on April 21 in the Beckman Auditorium of The Ames Library. During this time she will give a short reading from her work and answer questions from the audience.

At 7 p.m. on April 21, she will given a formal presentation and have a book signing at Braden Auditorium in Bone Student Center at Illinois State University.

Oates' appearance is sponsored by The Ames Library, the Humanities Series Committee at Illinois Wesleyan, The Friends of Milner Library, and Milner Library at Illinois State.