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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 nonfiction.
Joyce Carol Oates. Twayne Publishers, New York. Warren G. French, editor. ISBN 0-8057-7212-X; Johnson, Greg. 1994. Joyce Carol Oates: A Study of the Short Fiction. Twayne’s studies in short fiction; no. 57. Twayne Publishers, New York. ISBN 0-8057-0857-X; Oates, Joyce Caro. 1970. The Wheel of Love. Vanguard Press, New York. ISBN 978-0814906767
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."
High Lonesome: New and Selected Stories, 1966–2006 is a collection of short stories by American author Joyce Carol Oates. [1] First published by Ecco in 2006, it is the author's largest collection of short stories. The anthology included previously published stories, selected by Oates as her personal favorites, accompanied by eleven new short ...
The Wheel of Love contains 20 works of short fiction by Joyce Carol Oates published by Vanguard Press in 1970. [1] The volume brought Oates "abundant national acclaim", [2] including this assessment from librarian and critic John Alfred Avant: "Quite simply, one of the finest collections of short stories ever written by an American."
Oates, Joyce Carol. 1976. Crossing the Border. Vanguard Press, New York. ISBN 0-8149-0774-1; Lercangee, Francine. 1986. Joyce Carol Oates: An Annotated Bibliography. Garland Publishing, Inc. New York and London. ISBN 0-8240-8908-1; Wesley, Marilyn C. 1994. "Love’s Journey in Crossing the Border" in Joyce Carol Oates: A Study of the Short Fiction.
Joanne V. Creighton points out both the differences and the similarities between the two volumes: . Less often set in Eden County than the stories in By the North Gate, those in Upon the Sweeping Flood embody some of the same themes: the groping of inarticulate people for order and meaning and the discovery of hidden, unlovely depth of passion or of emptiness within one's self.
A Garden of Earthly Delights is a novel by Joyce Carol Oates, published by Vanguard in 1967. Her second book published, it is the first in her "Wonderland Quartet" followed by Expensive People (1968), them (1969), and Wonderland (1971). It was a finalist for the 1968 annual U.S. National Book Award for Fiction. [1]