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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.
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."
“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]
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 ...
The author of 'My Year of Rest and Relaxation' and 'Lapvona' on Joyce Carol Oates, 'The Mars Room,' and the Book That She Always Recommends.
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."
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]
Twayne's studies in short fiction; no. 57. "Oates on Oates: Funland" pp. 152-153 Twayne Publishers, New York. ISBN 0-8057-0857-X; Zins, Daniel L. 1994. Last Days and New Opportunities: Joyce Carol Oates Writes the End of the Cold War in Greg Johnson's Joyce Carol Oates: A Study of the Short Fiction.