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Joyce Carol Oates
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Joyce Carol Oates' Presentation Postponed
| The reading and discussion by Joyce Carol Oates, scheduled for Monday, Feb. 17, at The Ames Library has been postponed because of travel difficulties on the East Coast. The program has been rescheduled for April 21. |
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 February 17, including a discussion and reading at Illinois Wesleyan's Ames Library.
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 Feb. 17 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 Feb. 17, 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.
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