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By Leon Neyfakh 4/08/09 9:15pm

Joyce Carol Oates, ‘Literary Raptor,’ Honored With Arts Club Gold Medal

Joyce Carol Oates stuck close to her Princeton pals on Tuesday night, April 7, at the National Arts Club, where she was honored for her life’s work with a black-tie and lamb-chop dinner and the club’s hallowed Gold Medal of Honor.

Dressed in a frilly black camisole and a neon pink cardigan, the weightless and elegant 70-year-old author spent Read More

By Leon Neyfakh 2/12/08 4:16pm

Richard Ford Leaves Knopf After More Than 15 Years, Signs Three-Book Deal With Ecco

Richard Ford, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of the Frank Bascombe Trilogy, has left Knopf, his home of 17 years, and signed on to write three books for Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollins. The acquiring editor at Ecco was the publisher, Dan Halpern; Binky Urban of ICM, Mr. Ford’s longtime literary agent, brokered the deal.

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Joyce Carol Oates, ‘Literary Raptor,’ Honored With Arts Club Gold Medal

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