Joyce Carol Oates
The 2017 Blashfield Address, entitled The Wounded Deer Leaps Highest: Motives for Metaphor, was delivered by Joyce Carol Oates on May 17, 2017, at the Academy’s annual Ceremonial. Ms. Oates, a prolific novelist, playwright, and poet, was awarded the Rosenthal Award for Literature in 1968, and was elected to membership in 1978.
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