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Joy Williams Biography

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 &#; 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.

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