Warren County Community College will continue its popular visiting author series Oct. 2 with a reading and question-and-answer session featuring one of America’s most famous and admired writers, Joyce Carol Oates, who has authored more than 70 award-winning books of literature, essays and poetry.
The free session will start at 6 p.m. in Room E206 in on the school’s Washington, NJ, campus.
Forty books by Oates have been on the New York Times list of notable book and others have earned her the most prestigious literary honors, including two O. Henry Prizes, Bram Stoker Awards, the PEN/Malamud Award for Excellence in Short Fiction, the World Fantasy Award, and the M. L. Rosenthal Award from the National Institute of Arts and Letters.

She has received lifetime achievement awards from five of the leading literary organization and in 2011 President Barack Obama presented her with the National Humanities Medal “for her contributions to American letters.”

Oates currently is the Roger S. Berlind Distinguished Professor of the Humanities emerita at Princeton University and is this year releasing a new book of fiction and collections of short stories and letters. She also directs a variety of writing workshops, where participants often report about her insight and ability to connect them with her work and the work of others.

The authors series brings some of the nation’s best-selling authors and essayists and several award-winning poets to the Warren campus for the college and local community. The schedule includes:
    • Oct. 23: Novelists Lee Upton and Sung J. Woo
    • Nov. 13: Novelist Kate Brandes and poet Shawn R. Jones
    • Dec. 5: Billy Collins (former poet laureate of the United States)

The Visiting Authors Series is supported by a grant from the Warren County Division of Cultural & Heritage Affairs, a partner agency of the New Jersey State Council on the Arts.
The main campus is located at 475 and Route 57 West in Washington.

(For further information contact BJ Ward at ward@warren.edu)