Discusses the use of pseudonyms by Doris Lessing, Julian Barnes, Joyce Carol Oates and Gore Vidal.

NEWYORKER: Pseudonymously Yours

Joyce Carol Oates. (Applause.) The 2010 National Humanities Medal to Joyce Carol Oates for her contributions to American letters.

WHITEHOUSE: The 2010 National Medal of Arts and National Humanities Medal Ceremony | The White House

By that time, the Hudson Review had earned its reputation for independence, publishing authors from Wallace Stevens and Sylvia Plath to Octavio Paz and Joyce Carol Oates.

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Edited by Vogue Features Director Eve MacSweeney, the book is made up of essays by authors including Joan Didion, Margaret Atwood, Patti Smith, Karl Lagerfeld, Carly Simon, George Plimpton, Manolo Blahnik, Anjelica Huston and Joyce Carol Oates paired with iconic images that appeared in Vogue.

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The Caro talk was basically a reward to the Library's 150 fellows their ranks include Garrison Keillor, Joyce Carol Oates and Howard Levi (an attorney friend who invited me) whose sponsorship helps make up the shortfall between the expense of producing the books and the decision to sell them for less than a commercial publisher would.

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