When: Saturday, October 18
Where: UNLV Student Union Ballroom, Las Vegas, Nevada
What Time: 8 p.m.
Event Information:  All events are free and open to the public. Tickets are not required.
http://blackmountain.unlv.edu/news_and_events.htm

Co-sponsored by the Department of English with support from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Schaeffer Family Foundation 

Joyce Carol Oates is one of America's most versatile writers and the author of a number of distinguished books in several genres, including them, You Must Remember This, Black Water, We Were the Mulvaneys, Blonde, On Boxing, The Falls, and The Gravedigger's Daughter. Her writing has earned her the 2006 Orange Prize, the 2005 Prix Femina, the PEN/Malamud Award for Excellence in Short Fiction, the National Book Award, and nominations for the Nobel Prize, the Pulitzer Prize, and the PEN/Faulkner Award.

Born in upstate New York, Oates received her B.A. from Syracuse University and her M.A. from the University of Wisconsin. She is the Roger S. Berlind Distinguished Professor of the Humanities at Princeton University.