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Joy Williams (born February 11, 1944) is an American novelist, short-story writer, and essayist. Best-known for her short fiction, she is also the author of novels including State of Grace, The Quick and the Dead, and Harrow.
Jul 1, 2024 · Joy Williams distills much learning — from philosophy, religion and history — into 99 stories about the guy who takes your soul.
Williams is the author of four novels. Her first, State of Grace (1973), was nominated for a National Book Award for Fiction. Her most recent novel, The Quick and the Dead (2000), was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.
Joy Williams has 71 books on Goodreads with 126311 ratings. Joy Williams’s most popular book is The Quick and the Dead.
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Joy Williams
Joy Williams is the author of five novels, including The Quick and the Dead and most recently Harrow, five collections of stories, including...
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Esquire via YahooJoy Williams Remembers the Wildest Decades of Her Life
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JOY WILLIAMS is the author of four previous novels–including The Quick and the Dead, a runner-up for the Pulitzer Prize–and four collections of stories, as well as Ill Nature, a book of essays that was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award.
Nov 18, 2020 · And for this obsessive young reader, the author who most consistently embodied whatever that thing might have been was absolutely Joy Williams.
Joy Williams is the author of four novels – the most recent, The Quick and the Dead, was a runner-up for the Pulitzer Prize in 2001 – and three collections of stories, as well as Ill Nature, a book of essays that was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award.
6 days ago · Joy Williams is the author of five novels, including The Quick and the Dead and most recently Harrow, five collections of stories, including Ninety-Nine Stories of God, as well as Ill Nature, a ...
Joy Williams is the author of five novels, six collections of stories, including most recently Concerning the Nature of Souls, as well as Ill Nature, a book of essays that was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award.
Jan 8, 2002 · by Joy Williams (Author) 3.9 238 ratings. See all formats and editions. PULITZER PRIZE FINALIST • From one of our most heralded writers comes the “poetic, disturbing, yet very funny” (The Washington Post Book World) life-and-death adventures of three misfit teenagers in the American desert.
