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Joy Williams

(b.1944)

Awards: PEN (2016) see all

Genres: Literary Fiction

New and upcoming books

July 2024

Concerning the Future of Souls

Novels

   State of Grace (1973)
   The Changeling (1978)
   Breaking & Entering (1980)
   The Quick & The Dead (2000)
   Harrow (2021)

Collections

   Taking Care (1982)
   Escapes (1990)
   Honored Guest (2004)
   The Visiting Privilege (2015)
   Ninety-Nine Stories of God (2016)
   Concerning the Future of Souls (2024)

Novellas and Short Stories

The Other Week (2015)

Non fiction show

Books containing stories by Joy Williams

The Penguin Book of the Modern American Short Story (2021)
edited by
John Freeman

Tales of Two Americas (2017)
edited by
John Freeman

xo Orpheus (2013)
Fifty New Myths
(New Fairy Tales , book 2)
edited by
Kate Bernheimer

More books

Awards

	2021 Kirkus Prize for Fiction : Harrow
	2016 PEN/Malamud Award

Award nominations

	2022 Wodehouse Prize (nominee) : Harrow
	2021 Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Fiction (nominee) : Harrow
	2004 Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Fiction (nominee) : Honored Guest
	2001 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction (nominee) : The Quick & The Dead
	2000 Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Fiction (nominee) : The Quick & The Dead

Joy Williams recommends

Lost Believers (2023)
Irina Zhorov
"A beautiful, mournful novel about faith gravely tempered by grief and the brutal iron of modernity bringing the greatest of losses. Zhorov's voice is fresh and appealing."

Brother & Sister Enter the Forest (2023)
Richard Mirabella
"Riveting, relentless, a novel of calm and chilling reserve and accomplishment."

Don't Say We Didn't Warn You (2022)
Ariel Delgado Dixon
"Eventful, complex, admirably structured, relentless, and spooky."

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