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Joyce Carol Oates

Chicago Tribune Literary Prize, 2006

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  • ABOUT Julia Keller

    Julia Keller won the Pulitzer Prize for feature writing in 2005 and has been a cultural critic at the Chicago Tribune since late 1998. She earned her bachelor’s and master’s degrees in English from Marshall University and her doctorate in English from Ohio State University. In the fall of 2006, she was McGraw Professor of Writing at Princeton University. Keller is also guest essayist on the public television program The Newshour with Jim Lehrer. Her book Mr. Gatling’s Terrible Marvel: The Gun That Changed Everything and the Misunderstood Genius Who Invented It was published in 2008. Profile

  • ABOUT Ann Marie Lipinski

    Ann Marie Lipinski is the Vice President for Civic Engagement at the University of Chicago, overseeing an effort to create a new model for an urban research institution acting in partnership with its city. She is also a senior lecturer in the College. Lipinski is a former editor of the Chicago Tribune, where she was awarded a Pulitzer Prize in investigative reporting. Under her stewardship, the Tribune published stories that freed innocent prisoners from death row and brought about the state’s moratorium on the death penalty, revitalized the South Side lakefront, and scrutinized education initiatives. Profile

  • ABOUT Joyce Carol Oates

    National Book Award­-winner Joyce Carol Oates is the author of the bestsellers We Were the Mulvaneys (1996) and Blonde (2000), which was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize and the  National Book Award.  Her other novels include American Appetites (1989); Because It Is Bitter, and Because It Is My Heart (1990); Foxfire: Confessions of a Girl Gang (1993); Black Girl/White Girl (2006); and My Sister, My Love (2008).  She is the Roger S. Berlind ’52 Professor of the Humanities and Professor of Creative Writing in the Peter B. Lewis Center for the Arts at Princeton University and has been a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters since 1978. Profile
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When you’re very little, like you’re six years old, and you don’t have certain things, the book, even though it’s impenetrable and you can’t even read it, becomes very talismanic.       

Click play to listen. Recorded on November 5, 2006.

Joyce Carol Oates 's brimming catalogue encompasses award-winning fiction, essays, and criticism. Just after the publication of Black Girl / White Girl in 2006, she was honored with the Chicago Tribune Literary Prize. She spoke with the Tribune’s Julia Keller and Ann Marie Lipinski about the stories she loved as a child, her primary school teacher in upstate New York, her relatives so incredible she couldn’t translate them to fiction, writing pedagogy, and much more.

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