# Joy Williams

> Joy Williams 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.

*American novelist and short story writer*

**Canonical URL:** https://fame.am/person/joy-williams

## Identity
- **Profile type:** Writer / Author
- **Category:** Writers
- **Country:** United States
- **Born:** 1944-02-11
- **Status:** living
- **Gender:** female

## Bio

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## Fame
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## Sources
- [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Joy_Williams_(American_writer))
- [جوي وليامز (كاتبة)](https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D9%88%D9%8A_%D9%88%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%A7%D9%85%D8%B2_(%D9%83%D8%A7%D8%AA%D8%A8%D8%A9))
- [Joy Williams (Schriftstellerin, 1944)](https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joy_Williams_(Schriftstellerin%2C_1944))
- [Joy Williams (American writer)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joy_Williams_(American_writer))
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- [Joy Williams (scrittrice statunitense)](https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joy_Williams_(scrittrice_statunitense))
- [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6297286)

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