Joy Williams

Joy Williams (born 1944) is an American novelist, short-story writer, and essayist, best known for her short fiction. Williams's novels include State of Grace, The Quick and the Dead, and Harrow, a dystopian novel. 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.