The PEN/Faulkner Foundation is pleased to announce that Joy Williams will receive the 2016 PEN/Malamud Award for Excellence in the Short Story in an Award Ceremony & Reading held at the Folger Shakespeare Library in December 2016.
Joy Williams is the author most recently of the short story collection The Visiting Privilege: New and Collected Stories. She has written four novels, five story collections, and one essay collection, which was nominated for the National Book Critics Circle Award. Her fiction has received many honors, including the Rea Award for the Short Story and the Harold and Mildred Strauss Living Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Born in Chelmsford, Massachusetts, Williams now lives in Key West, Florida and Tucson, Arizona.
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