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June 20 • 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Part of our Voices of Today Series
“The difference between the almost right word and the right word is really a large matter—it’s the difference between the lightning bug and the lightning.” -Mark Twain
A spellbinding novel of literary and psychological suspense— by the legendary author—about the dark secrets that surface after the shocking disappearance of a charismatic, mercurial teacher at an elite boarding school.
Copies of Fox will be pre-signed by Joyce Carol Oates. Additional copies are available for purchase. There will not be a book signing/ meet-and-greet for this event.
The Voices of Today Series invites some of the most celebrated and diverse voices in contemporary literature to engage with our audience.
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About the Author:
Joyce Carol Oates is a recipient of the National Humanities Medal, the National Book Critics Circle Ivan Sandrof Life Achievement Award, the National Book Award, the Jerusalem Prize for Lifetime Achievement, the Prix Femina, and the Cino Del Duca World Prize. She has been nominated several times for the Pulitzer Prize. She has written some of the most enduring fiction of our time, including the national best sellers We Were the Mulvaneys, Blonde, and the New York Times best seller The Falls. She is the Roger S. Berlind ’52 Distinguished Professor of the Humanities Emerita at Princeton University and has been a member of The American Academy of Arts and Letters since 1978.
About the Moderator:
Jennifer Haigh is the author of seven best-selling, critically acclaimed works of fiction. Her first, Mrs. Kimble, won the PEN Hemingway Award for debut fiction. Her novel, Mercy Street, was named a Best Book of 2022 by the New Yorker and won the Mark Twain American Voice in Literature Award. Her most recent novel, Rabbit Moon, explores the unbreakable bond between sisters, the enduring ties of marriage, and the mysteries of a city where nothing is as it seems. A Guggenheim fellow and graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, she lives in Boston.