Joyce Carol Oates to discuss new novel ‘Fox’ at Mark Twain House on June 20

Joyce Carol Oates
Mark Twain Museum • 351 Farmington Avenue, Hartford, Connecticut
June 20, 2025
Tickets go on sale on May 14 2025 click here to purchase tickets

Joyce Carol Oates to discuss Fox at the Mark Twain Museum in hartford Connecticut in June 2025 — Joyce Carol Oates photo by Emily Soto

The Mark Twain House & Museum (MTH&M) announced today an upcoming Hartford appearance by preeminent American novelist Joyce Carol Oates discussing her new psychological thriller, Fox. The event will be held at the National Historic Landmark museum (351 Farmington Avenue, Hartford, CT) on Friday, June 20 at 7pm.

One of America’s most prolific and honored writers, Oates has written over sixty novels, in addition to numerous plays, novellas, short stories, Young Adult fiction, essays, memoirs, poems, and children’s books. She is a five-time finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for fiction, and has won or been nominated for dozens of other literary honors. This will be her debut appearance at The Mark Twain House & Museum. Oates’ conversation partner will be announced in the coming weeks.

MTH&M Interim Executive Director Jack Sennott states, “Joyce Carol Oates has long been near the top of our list of authors to bring to The Mark Twain House & Museum. Like Samuel Clemens, her writing cannot be contained by any one genre. She featured Twain as a character in her 2013 gothic novel The Accursed and we are delighted to have her come to Hartford to discuss her career and latest spellbinder, Fox.”

Tickets including a signed copy of Fox are $45. Priority pre-sale tickets for Members of The Mark Twain House & Museum are happening now. Tickets for the general public will go on sale Wednesday, May 14 at 10am via the museum’s website, MarkTwainHouse.org/events/. To become a MTH&M Member and access priority pre-sale tickets, visit MarkTwainHouse.org/membership/.

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Joyce Carol Oates to discuss new novel ‘Fox’ at Mark Twain House on June 20