Joyce Carol Oates Coming To Bloomfield College

BLOOMFIELD, NJ — Bloomfield College will welcome iconic author Joyce Carol Oates to campus for a free, public event on Monday, Nov. 6, at 6 p.m. in the Robert V. Van Fossan Theatre.

According to a campus news release, Oates is a recipient of the National Medal of Humanities, the National Book Critics Circle Ivan Sandrof Lifetime Achievement Award, the National Book Award, and the PEN/Malamud Award for Excellence in Short Fiction, and has been nominated for the Pulitzer Prize several times. Oates is the Roger S. Berlind Distinguished Professor of the Humanities at Princeton University and has been a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters since 1978.

She has written bestsellers “We Were the Mulvaneys,” “Blonde,” which was nominated for the National Book Award, and the New York Times bestseller “The Falls,” which won the 2005 Prix Femina. Her most recent novel is “A Book of American Martyrs.”

Angela Conrad, professor of English and women's studies at the college, will act as program moderator during this intimate discussion with Oates, an honorary degree recipient and “dear friend of Bloomfield College,” administrators said.

To register for the event, respond to Jackie Bartley, vice president for institutional advancement, at jackie_bartley@bloomfield.edu, or at 973-748-9000, ext. 1293.

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