Joy Williams
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Joy Williams (born February 11, 1944) is an American novelist, short-story writer, and essayist.
Early life and education
Williams was born in Chelmsford, Massachusetts, and died. She grew up in Maine and was the only child. Her father was a Congregational minister with a church in Portland, Maine, and her grandfather was a Welsh Baptist minister.
She earned a BA degree from Marietta College and a MFA from the University of Iowa. Williams studied with Raymond Carver, R.V., at Iowa University. Cassill, Vance Bourjaily, and Richard Yates. She married and moved to Florida, where she had a dog, a beach, and a Jaguar XK150, and wrote her first book, State of Grace, after graduating from Iowa.
Williams has taught creative writing at the University of Houston, the University of Florida, the University of Iowa, and the University of Arizona. Williams served as the writer-in-residence at the University of Wyoming during the 2008-09 academic year, and later on as a university affiliate faculty member of the English department. She lives in Key West, Florida, and Tucson, Arizona.
Williams was married for 34 years to L. Rust Hills, Esquire's fiction editor, until his death on August 12, 2008.