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          The short fiction and novels of Williams seek to know the things lurking just beyond the surface of what we perceive to be real.!

          On the Writer's Voice podcast, Joy Williams reads her story from the January 15, , issue of The New Yorker.

        1. On the Writer's Voice podcast, Joy Williams reads her story from the January 15, , issue of The New Yorker.
        2. A master of the short story explores mortality and beyond, through these funny, boundlessly intelligent visions of the angel of death.
        3. The short fiction and novels of Williams seek to know the things lurking just beyond the surface of what we perceive to be real.
        4. Joy Williams' micro-stories invite questions about faith.
        5. Some of Yan's novels have been banned in his native China for their satirical take on contemporary life, including his latest work, The Day the Sun Died.

          6. Joy Williams (American writer)

          American novelist and short story writer

          For other people named Joy Williams, see Joy Williams (disambiguation).

          Joy Williams (born February 11, 1944) is an American novelist, short-story writer, and essayist.

          Best-known for her short fiction, she is also the author of novels including State of Grace, The Quick and the Dead, and Harrow. Williams has received a Guggenheim Fellowship for Creative Arts, a Rea Award for the Short Story, a Kirkus Award for Fiction, and a Library of Congress Prize for American Fiction.

          Early life and education

          Williams was born in Chelmsford, Massachusetts.[1] She grew up in Maine and was an only child. Her father was a Congregational minister with a church in Portland, Maine, and her grandfather was a Welsh Baptist minister.[2]

          She received a BA from Marietta College and a MFA from the University of Iowa.

          At Iowa, Williams studied alongside Raymond Carver, Ronald Verlin Cassill, Vance Bo