Friday, April 7th
UMMA, Apse, 1st Floor

7:30-9:00pm Reading

“One Acre”

Description:
Joy Williams is a verbal artist of both fiction and non-fiction, whose eye is trained on human relationships with the earth. Her first novel, State of Grace [1973], was a National Book Award nominee and brought Williams much popular and critical attention. She followed these with three more novels: The Changeling [1978], Breaking and Entering [1988] and The Quick and the Dead [2000], a Pulitzer Prize finalist, which was described as "a gloriously funny and wonderfully serious novel where the dead are forever infusing the living, and all creatures strive to participate in eternity." Her two short story collections are Taking Care (1982) and Escapes (1990). Her most recent work is a collection of essays, Ill Nature: Rants and Reflections on Humanity and Other Animals [2001]. Williams received her MFA from the University of Iowa; she has been the recipient of NEA, Guggenheim, and American Academy of Arts and Letters Fellowhsips. Williams will read from her recent work.

Publications:
Ill Nature (Vintage)
The Quick and the Dead (Vintage)
Florida Keys (Random House)
State of Grace (Vintage)
Honored Guest (Vintage)