Since joining the Princeton University faculty in 1978—where she has mentored countless young writers—Joyce Carol Oates’s literary work has continued unabated. Her “towering career” (Washington Post) includes nearly 60 novels, more than 30 short story collections, eight volumes of poetry, plays, and innumerable essays and book reviews. Among her many distinctions, she has received the National Book Award for them, the National Book Critics Circle Ivan Sandrof Lifetime Achievement Award, the PEN/Malamud Award for Excellence in Short Fiction, and Pulitzer Prize nominations for three of her novels: Black Water, What I Lived For, and Blonde. Her new novel The Accursed blends history and the occult in an eerie story of power, possession, and loss.