An Evening with Joyce Carol Oates

National Book Award winner Joyce Carol Oates will visit Doylestown, PA, where she will discuss her gripping new novel, Fox, on Wednesday, June 25th, at 7:00 PM in the Life Sciences Auditorium at Delaware Valley University.

This is a ticketed event. Each ticket includes admission for one and one hardcover copy of Fox: A Novel. The book that is included with your ticket will be available for pick-up when you check in at the event.

Please note: information on the book signing portion of this event is not yet available. Please continue to check this page for updates.

DATE: Wednesday, June 25th, 2025, at 7:00 pm

LOCATION: Delaware Valley University Life Sciences Auditorium 700 East Butler Avenue, Doylestown, PA 18901

THIS IS A TICKETED EVENT - HERE'S WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW

• Doors open at 6:00 pm, the event will start at 7:00 pm.
• Books will be available for pick-up when you check in at the event. You may not pick up your book prior to the event.
• Additional books will be available for sale at the event.
• Each attendee must purchase a ticket.
• An adult must accompany children under 18.
• Event tickets are non-refundable.
• If you cannot attend the event, we can not guarantee it, but we will do our best to have your book autographed. We will hold your book at the front counter of The Doylestown Bookshop for pick-up. If you cannot pick up your book, please email c3RhZmYgfCBkb3lsZXN0b3duYm9va3Nob3AgISBjb20= to arrange shipment. Please give us 48 hours after the event to prepare your books for pick-up.

About the Book:

Who is Francis Fox? A charming English teacher new to the idyllic Langhorne Academy, Fox beguiles many of his students, their parents, and his colleagues at the elite boarding school, while leaving others wondering where he came from and why his biography is so enigmatic. When two brothers discover Fox’s car half-submerged in a pond in a local nature preserve and parts of an unidentified body strewn about the nearby woods, the entire community, including Detective Horace Zwender and his deputy, begins to ask disturbing questions about Francis Fox and who he might really be.

A hypnotic, galloping tale of crime and complicity, revenge and restitution, victim vs. predator, Joyce Carol Oates’s Fox illuminates the darkest corners of the human psyche while asking profound moral questions about justice and the response evil demands. A character as magnetically diabolical as Patricia Highsmith’s Tom Ripley and Vladimir Nabokov’s Humbert Humbert, Francis Fox enchants and manipulates nearly everyone around him, until at last he meets someone he can’t outfox. Written in Oates’s trademark intimate, sweeping style, and interweaving multiple points of view, Fox is a triumph of craftsmanship and artistry, a novel as profound as it is propulsive, as moving as it is full of mystery.

About our Guest:

Joyce Carol Oates is a recipient of a National Humanities Medal awarded by President Barack Obama, the National Book Critics Circle’s Ivan Sandrof Life Achievement Award, the National Book Award in Fiction, the Jerusalem Prize, the Prix Femina, the Cino Del Duca World Prize, and is a five-time finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. She has written some of the most enduring fiction of our time, including the bestsellers Blonde and We Were the Mulvaneys. She is the Roger S. Berlind ’52 Distinguished Professor of the Humanities Emerita at Princeton University and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters. In 2024 she won the Raymond Chandler Lifetime Achievement Award given to "a master of the thriller and noir literary genre."

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