Joyce Carol OatesJoyce Carol Oates is an award-winning author of fiction, nonfiction, short stories, plays, and novellas. She is the 2019 recipient of the $10,000 Jerusalem Prize, given to "international writers whose body of work assert the freedom of the indvidual in society." She is also a recipient of the National Book Award and the PEN/Malamud Award for Excellence in Short Fiction, among other major awards. Read More Read Less