Joy Williams is the author of such classics of American fiction as Taking Care, Escapes, and Breaking and Entering. Harold Brodkey called her “the most gifted writer of her generation.” 99 Stories of God, a Byliner Original, marks the publication of her first book of fiction in nearly a decade. She has also written several widely anthologized essays on ecological matters. Williams lives in Arizona, Wyoming, and Florida.
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