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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.
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]
"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.
Literary critic Wendy Lesser in The New York Times reports that Oates’s “own enormous body of work” has become a burden that the author carries into her collection Heat and Other Stories, which deal largely with “parent-child struggles.” [5] Lesser offers the story “Shopping” as an example of Oates’s thematic concerns in this volume: the story is not a Gothic horror reminiscent ...
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."
Joyce Carol Oates is one of the most celebrated, accomplished and revered novelists of the last 60 years. She has written nearly 60 novels, plus dozens of plays, novellas and short story and essay ...
Raven's Wing is a collection of short fiction 18 works by Joyce Carol Oates published by E. P. Dutton in 1986. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The title story "Raven’s Wing" was included in The Best American Short Stories (1986) [ 3 ] "The Seasons" was reprinted in Prize Stories 1985: The O. Henry Awards .
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