Spotted Hyenas

Joyce Carol Oates was the 2010 recipient of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Lifetime Achievement in Literature. She has also been honored with the PEN/Malamud Award for Excellence in Short Fiction and the National Book Award.

Oates is the Roger S. Berlind Distinguished Professor of the Humanities at Princeton University.

Her newest book, Sourland, will be available on eReaders in early September. Her memoir The Siege: A Widow's Story, will be published early in 2011.