On the Civil Wars' web site, Paul John White says his connection with Joy Williams was immediate.

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Musicians Joy Williams and John Paul White are the Civil Wars.

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An incomplete list: Joy Williams, Stuart Dybek, Anne Carson, Alice Munro, Mary Gaitskill, Lydia Davis, Bhanu Kapil, Deborah Eisenberg, Edward P.

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Just a very few on a long list would be George Saunders, Kelly Link, Joy Williams, Ben Marcus, Jim Shepard, and whole cemeteries of the well-over-forty deceased ones.

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Oldham has another alter ego besides Bonnie Prince Billy he has done quite a bit of acting, in movies such as Junebug, Old Joy and the recent Michelle Williams film Wendy and Lucy.

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