Background
Williams, Joy was born on February 11, 1944 in Chelmsford, Massachusetts, United States. Daughter of William Lloyd and Elisabeth (Thomas) Williams.
(Willie and Liberty are drifters. They break into Florida ...)
Willie and Liberty are drifters. They break into Florida vacation homes while the owners are away, stay a while, and then move on. They have been lovers since they were teenagers, yet Liberty now senses that Willie is drifting away from her—that their search, so relentless and mysterious, is becoming increasingly dangerous. An exhilarating cast of characters reflects this search, which is not just for home, but for self.
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(With her singular brand of gorgeous dark humor, Joy Willi...)
With her singular brand of gorgeous dark humor, Joy Williams explores the various ways–comic, tragic, and unnerving—we seek to accommodate diminishment and loss. A masseuse breaks her rich client's wrist bone, a friend visits at the hospital long after she is welcome, and a woman surrenders her husband to a creepily adoring student. From one of our most acclaimed writers, Honored Guest is a rich examination of our capacity for transformation and salvation.
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(Nominated for the National Book Award in 1974, this haunt...)
Nominated for the National Book Award in 1974, this haunting, profoundly disquieting novel manages to be at once sparse and lush, to combine Biblical simplicity with Gothic intensity and strangeness. It is the story of Kate, despised by her mother, bound to her father by ties stronger and darker than blood. It is the story of her attempted escapes−in detached sexual encounters, at a Southern college populated by spoiled and perverse beauties, and in a doomed marriage to a man who cannot understand what she is running from. Witty, erotic, searing acute, State of Grace bears the inimitable stamp of one of our fines and most provocative writers.
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(Fiction. This 30th Anniversary Edition of THE CHANGELING ...)
Fiction. This 30th Anniversary Edition of THE CHANGELING by Joy Williams includes a Foreword by Rick Moody. An overlooked and spectacular novel, THE CHANGELING is a visionary fairy tale, a work of mythic genius. Terrifying, poetic, revelations follow THE CHANGELING's abandoned heroine Pearl everywhere she goes, whether by air, land, or sea. Joy Williams has won the Rea Award for the Short Story, the Harold and Mildred Strauss Living Award from the American Academy of Arts & Letters, among other prizes. Her first novel, State of Grace, was a National Book Award Finalist. The 3oth Anniversary Edition seeks to reintroduce this novel to contemporary readers as one of the most original and alarming fairy-tale books ever written. THE CHANGELING will be available for purchase starting May 15th, 2008.
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Williams, Joy was born on February 11, 1944 in Chelmsford, Massachusetts, United States. Daughter of William Lloyd and Elisabeth (Thomas) Williams.
Master of Arts magna cum laude, Marietta College, Ohio, 1963. Master of Fine Arts, University Iowa, 1965.
Williams is the author of four novels. Her first collection of short stories was Taking Care, published in 1982. A second collection, Escapes, followed in 1990.
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. Williams was born in Chelmsford, Massachusetts.
She received a Bachelor from Marietta College and a Master of Fine Arts 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.
She lives in Key West, Florida, and Tucson, Arizona.
Williams was married for 34 years to L. Rust Hills, fiction editor for Esquire, until his death on August 12, 2008.
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Foreign the 2008-2009 academic year, Williams was the writer-in-residence at the University of Wyoming, and continued thereafter as an affiliated faculty member of the English department.
Married Rust Hills; 1 child, Caitlin.