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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.
Abrahams, William. 1972. “Stories of a Visionary” Saturday Review, September 23, 1972. in Greg Johnson’s Joyce Carol Oates: A Study of the Short Fiction. Twayne’s studies in short fiction; no. 57, pp. 164-166. Twayne Publishers, New York. Greg Johnson, editor. ISBN 0-8057-0857-X; Creighton, Joanne V.. 1979. Joyce Carol Oates.
“A Legacy” is a work of short fiction by Joyce Carol Oates, originally published in the Arizona Quarterly in 1961. The story was first collected in By the North Gate (1963) by Vanguard Press. [1]
The author of more than 50 novels, including “Blonde, ” a fictional account of the life of Marilyn Monroe, Oates has often drawn from historical people and events. In “Butcher,” she pulls ...
“Accomplished Desires” is a work of short fiction by Joyce Carol Oates originally published in Esquire (May 1968) and first collected in The Wheel of Love (1970) by Vanguard Press. [1] The story was awarded second prize in Prize Stories 1969: The O. Henry Awards. [2]
“In The Assignation, one of Oates’s two collections of ‘miniature narratives,’ such tales as “Blue-Bearded Lover” and “The Others" recall nineteenth-century Gothic literature, while others convey the kind of hothouse psychological intensity, the precarious balance between sanity and madness, traditionally associated with the genre.” [7]
Unholy Loves is a novel written by Joyce Carol Oates.It was published in 1979 by Vanguard Press.In an interview Oates called it "an academic comedy set at an upstate New York university larger than Bennington, smaller than Cornell, prestigious yet not quite competitive with Harvard, Princeton, and Yale."
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]