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Joyce Carol Oates (born June 16, 1938) is an American writer. Oates published her first book in 1963, and has since published 58 novels, a number of plays and novellas, and many volumes of short stories, poetry, and non-fiction.
The Joyce Carol Oates Literary Prize is an annual award presented by the New Literary Project to recognize mid-career writers of fiction. [1] [2] "Mid-career writer" is defined by the project as "an author who has published at least two notable books of fiction, and who has yet to receive capstone recognition such as a Pulitzer or a MacArthur."
Oates, Joyce Carol. 1975. The Seduction and Other Stories. Black Sparrow Press, San Francisco. ISBN 978-0876852286; Pochoda, Elizabeth. 1975. "Joyce Carol Oates Honoring the Complexities of the Real World." The New York Times, August 31, 1975. Joyce Carol Oates honoring the complexities of the real world Retrieved 10 November, 2023.
Heat and Other Stories is a collection of 25 works of short fiction by Joyce Carol Oates published by E. P. Dutton in 1991. [1]This volume serves as “a postmodernist allegory of contemporary America” in which Oates returns to the settings of her early fiction in rural western New York state.
"Pastoral Blood" is a work of short fiction by Joyce Carol Oates. The story was first collected in By the North Gate (1963) by Vanguard Press. [1]The story is set, as are other works in By the North Gate, in Oates's fictional "Eden County," similar to the rural upstate New York community where she was raised.
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The stories in Haunted are written in the tradition of Gothic literature with a postmodernist orientation. [4] Literary critic Greg Johnson observes that these “ ‘tales’ are integral to Oates’s larger endeavor in fiction, which is to probe relentlessly the complex mysteries of human personality and identity.” [5]