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. Among her many honours are the Rea Award for the Short Story and the Strauss Living Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. She lives in Tucson, Arizona, and Laramie, Wyoming.
Books by Joy Williams
The Pelican Child
Joy Williams
A biting new collection of stories featuring misfits across time and space from award-winning visionary Joy Williams
Concerning the Future of Souls
Joy Williams
An incisive crash course in philosophy, religion, literature and culture from Pulitzer Prize finalist Joy Williams
Harrow
Joy Williams
A fresh, powerful story of surviving ecological disaster and solidarity between the generations by a giant of American literature
The Changeling
Joy Williams
A work of mythic genius by 'the heir to Anton Chekhov' and celebrated author of The Visiting Privilege
The Visiting Privilege
Joy Williams
These incomparable stories received rapturous reviews and appeared in multiple 'Books of the Year' lists – now in paperback
Ninety-Nine Stories of God
Joy Williams
From 'the literary heir to Anton Chekov' (Washington Post) comes 'a treasure trove of bafflements and tiny masterpieces' (New York…