A Book of American Martyrs

About Joyce Carol Oates

Joyce Carol Oates is a recipient of the National Medal of Humanities the National Book Critics Circle Ivan Sandrof Lifetime Achievement Award the National Book Award and the PEN/Malamud Award for Excellence in Short Fiction. She has written some of the most enduring fiction of our time including We Were the Mulvaneys; Blonde which was nominated for the National Book Award; and the New York Times bestseller The Accursed. She is the Roger S. Berlind Distinguished Professor of the Humanities at Princeton University and has been a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters since 1978.