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Mon 28 Sept · 18:15 · £21
Joyce Carol Oates is the author of more than 60 novels and many volumes of short stories, criticism and memoir, earning her five Pulitzer Prize nominations and a National Book award, among others. Her best-known works in a remarkably consistent career include Blonde, a haunting, fictionalised account of the life of Marilyn Monroe, Them, part of the Wonderland quartet, and Zombie, loosely based on the serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer. She reflects on violence and death, the real and the imagined, patriarchy and human failings, including in her recent The Fox, a novel of literary and psychological suspense about the dark secrets that surface after the shocking disappearance of a charismatic, mercurial teacher. At the same time she is rarely judgmental, and her new collection of short stories The Frenzy, is sympathetic to the impact of loss and the power of friendship.At the age of 88 Joyce Carol Oates is also an active and powerful voice on social media.Part of the British Library’s American Writers’ Week (28 September to 2 November), presented in association with Festival America, Vincennes, France. Participating writers include Alison Bechdel, Daniel Kraus, Jeanine Cummins, Joyce Carol Oates, Katie Kitamura and Rabih Alameddine and Viet Thanh Nguyen.Buy tickets for two or more American Writers’ Week events and save 25% on your basket.In association with The Eccles Institute for the Americas and Oceania.