Joy Williams is the author of several novels, including "The Quick and the Dead," a runner-up for the Pulitzer Prize; four collections of stories, and "Ill Nature," a book of essays that was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. Among her many honors are the Rea Award for the Short Story and the Strauss Living Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. She was elected to the Academy in 2008. Her most recent short story collection is "The Pelican Child." She lives in Tucson and Laramie, Wyoming.
Awards: Rea Award for the short story, Kirkus award for fiction, Library of Congress Prize for American Fiction, Harold and Mildred Strauss Living Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters,Finalist for the National Book Award for Fiction (State of Grace, 1974), Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction (The Quick and the Dead), Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism (Ill Nature: Rants and Reflections on Humanity and Other Animals)
Communities: Arizona Author, Tucsonan
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