Joy Williams (American writer)

Joy Williams
Williams at the Library of Congress in 2021
Born	(1944-02-11) February 11, 1944 (age 80) Chelmsford, Massachusetts, U.S.
Occupation	Novelist short story writer essayist
Education	Marietta College (BA) University of Iowa (MFA)
Period	1973–present
Genre	Literary fiction

Joy Williams (born February 11, 1944) 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.