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| + | '''William Dix''' is a quizbowl player for the [[University of Chicago]]. William played on the Chicago B team that won [https://netfiles.uiuc.edu/ro/www/AcademicBuzzerTeam/results/Fall07/fall07_teamdetail.html#t6 ACF Fall] in 2007. |
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| − | | occupation = [[Novel]]ist, [[Short story|short story writer]], [[essay]]ist
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| − | | genre = [[Literary fiction]]
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| − | | debut_works = Novel: ''State of Grace'' (1973) Story collection: ''Taking Care'' (1982)
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| − | | influences = [[Jean Rhys]], [[Jane Bowles]], [[Flannery O'Connor]]
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| − | '''Joy Williams''' (born February 11, 1944) is an [[United States|American]] author of [[fiction]].
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| − | Williams is the author of four [[novel]]s. Her first, ''State of Grace'' (1973), was nominated for a [[National Book Award|National Book Award for Fiction]]. Her most recent novel, ''The Quick and the Dead'' (2000), was a finalist for the [[Pulitzer Prize for Fiction]]. Her first collection of [[Short story|short stories]] was ''Taking Care'', published in 1982. A second collection, ''Escapes'', followed in 1990. A 2001 [[essay]] collection, ''Ill Nature: Rants and Reflections on Humanity and Other Animals'', was a finalist for the [[National Book Critics Circle Award|National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism]]. ''Honored Guest,'' a collection of short stories, was published in 2004. A 30th anniversary reprint of ''The Changeling'' was issued in 2008 with an introduction by the American novelist [[Rick Moody]].<ref>[http://fairytalereview.blogspot.com/2007/09/fairy-tale-review-press.html Fairy Tale Review Press (September 13, 2007)]</ref>
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| − | Her stories and essays are frequently [[anthology|anthologized]], and she has received many awards and honors, including the [[Harold and Mildred Strauss Living Award]] from the [[American Academy of Arts and Letters]] and the [[Rea Award for the Short Story]].
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| − | Williams was born in [[Chelmsford, Massachusetts]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://writersalmanac.publicradio.org/programs/2006/02/06/index.html |date=February 2006 |accessdate=2007-04-12 | title="The Writer's Almanac: Saturday, 11 February, 2006" by [[Garrison Keillor]]|work=The Writer's Almanac from American Public Media}}</ref> She received a [[Bachelor of Arts|BA]] from [[Marietta College]] and a [[Master of Fine Arts|MFA]] from the [[University of Iowa]]. She has taught creative writing at the [[University of Houston]], the [[University of Florida]], the University of Iowa, and the [[University of Arizona]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.reaaward.org/html/joy_williams.html |date=Undated |accessdate=2007-04-12 | title="Joy Williams" |work=www.ReaAward.org }}</ref> For the 2008-2009 academic year, Williams is the eminent writer in residence at the University of Wyoming, where she teaches. She lives in [[Key West, Florida]], and [[Tucson, Arizona]]. She was married for 34 years to L. Rust Hills, famous Esquire fiction editor, who died on August 12, 2008.
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| − | Williams's fiction often portrays life as a downward spiral, and the failure of life in America, from a spiritual as well as economic perspective, as a virtual certainty. Her characters, generally from the Middle Class, frequently fall from it, at times in bizarre fashion, in a form of cultural dispossession.<ref>Thompson, ''Carolyn Chute and Joy Williams'', 209, 218</ref> Characters are usually divorced, children are abandoned, and their lives are consumed with fear, often irrational, such as the little girl in the story "The Excursion" who is terrified that birds will fly out of her toilet bowl.<ref>Gelfant, ''Columbia Companion'', 574.</ref>
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| − | ==Published work==
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| − | ===Novels===
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| − | *''State of Grace'' (1973)
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| − | *''The Changeling'' (1978)
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| − | *''Breaking and Entering'' (1988)
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| − | *''The Quick and the Dead'' (2000)
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| − | ===Story collections===
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| − | *''Taking Care'' (1982)
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| − | *''Escapes'' (1990)
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| − | *''Honored Guest'' (2004)
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| − | ===Nonfiction===
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| − | * ''Ill Nature: Rants and Reflections on Humanity and Other Animals'' (essays) (2001)
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| − | * ''The Florida Keys: A History & Guide'', illustrated by Robert Carawan (Tenth Edition) (2003)
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| − | ==External links==
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| − | *[http://www.bookslut.com/features/2008_11_013681.php Interview with Tao Lin on Bookslut]
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| − | *[http://www.kwls.org/lit/podcasts/2010/02/joy_williams_1989_the_last_gen.cfm Audio recording of Joy Williams reading "The Last Generation" at the 1989 Key West Literary Seminar (31:42)]
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| − | ==References==
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| − | * ''The Writer's Almanac: Saturday, 11 February, 2006'' by Garrison Keillor. ''The Writer's Almanac'' from American Public Media (February 2006). Retrieved on 2007 April 12.
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| − | * ''Joy Williams''. http://www.ReaAward.org (Undated). Retrieved on 2007 April 12.
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| − | * Gelfant, Blanche. ''The Columbia Companion to the Twentieth-Century American Short Story''. New York: Columbia University Press, 2001.
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| − | * Thompson, James R. ''Carolyn Chute and Joy Williams: Alternate Voices of Rage and Curious Dismay'', in ''Constructing the Eighties: Versions of an American Decade'', eds. Walter Grunzweig, Roberta Maierhofer, Adolf Wimmer. Tübingen: Gunter Narr Verlag, 1992.
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