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Joy Williams

(b.1944)

Awards: PEN (2016) see all

Genres: Literary Fiction

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)
   The Pelican Child (2025)

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

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Awards

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

Award nominations

	2026 PEN/Jean Stein Award (longlist) : The Pelican Child
	2025 National Book Award for Fiction (longlist) : The Pelican Child
	2022 Wodehouse Prize (nominee) : Harrow
	2021 Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Fiction (nominee) : Harrow
	2016 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction (longlist) : The Visiting Privilege
	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

Yellow Pine (2026)
Claire Vaye Watkins
"Yellow Pine is pure Claire Vaye Watkins. Inimitable, irrepressible, wild and true. A romp of troubled tender outsider angst, it's also a fresh classic of desert writing, a lament and a hymn to the great Mohave, bombed, fenced, airbnb'ed and solarized to near ruin and to its mysterious ancient and innocent heart, the desert tortoise."

Paradiso 17 (2026)
Hannah Lillith Assadi
"An intense, fearless, lyrical, and quite astonishing novel about the haunted apparitional life of a refugee."

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."

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