Historical September 1988 report or notice. Original dates, prices and contacts describe the source period; current availability has not been established.
Joyce Carol Oates will receive the prestigious Saint Louis Literary Award for 1988, as announced by David P. Allen, President of the Associates of Saint Louis University Libraries. Joyce Carol Oates is the author of seventeen novels and many volumes of short stories, poems, and essays, as well as plays.
She has been honored by awards from the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Institute of Arts and Letters, and the Lotos Club, and a National Book Award in 1970 for her novel them: For many years her short stories have been included in the O. Henry Prize Stories collection, and she is the recipient of the O. Henry Special Award for Continuing Achievement.
She has been a member of the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters since 1978. Born in Lockport, New York, Ms. Oates now lives in Princeton, New Jersey, where she is on the faculty of Princeton University. Sponsored by the Associates of Saint Louis University Libraries, the Saint Louis Literary Award, formerly the Wilma and Roswell Messing, Jr. Award, has been presented annually since 1967 to such luminaries as W. H. Auden, Barbara Tuchman, Tennessee Williams, Howard Nemerov, Arthur Miller, James Michener, William Styron, Eudora Welty, Walker Percy, Saul Bellow and John Updike.
The Award will be presented at 4:00 p.m. Sunday, September 25 in the Carlo Auditorium, Tegeler Hall, 3550 Lindell Blvd., followed by a response by Ms. Oates.
The presentation is open to the public without charge.
Originally published in The Times of Skinker-DeBaliviere, September 1988.
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