The site is based on a visual-design template that resembles that of the Prospectus , the College's primary recruiting publication. While Jones stresses that the navigation menu will now be easier to use, she says some current personal bookmarks will no longer be valid. In a period of just a few years, Kenyon's web site has grown from several dozen pages to the more than ten thousand that make up the College's web presence today. One of the most prolific writers in America today, Oates has published more than seventy books, including novels, short-story collections, poetry volumes, plays, literary criticism, and essays. She has twice been nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature.
Oates depicts a dark and unsettling fictional world, frequently characterized by violence.
But she is. A new novel, Blonde , based on the life of Marilyn Monroe, is forthcoming this April. Oates, who received her bachelor's degree from Syracuse University and a masters' degree in English from the University of Wisconsin, is currently the Roger S. Berlind Distinguished Professor of the Humanities at Princeton University. She and her husband operate a small press together and publish The Ontario Review , a literary magazine. Oates's appearance at the College is sponsored by the Student Lectureships Committee.