Joyce Carol Oates
Author of We Were the Mulvaneys
About the Author
Joyce Carol Oates was born on June 16, 1938 in Lockport, New York. She received a bachelor's degree in English from Syracuse University and a master's degree in English from the University of Wisconsin. She is the author of numerous novels and collections of short stories. Her works include We Were show more the Mulvaneys, Blonde, Bellefleur, You Must Remember This, Because It Is Bitter, Because It Is My Heart, Solstice, Marya : A Life, and Give Me Your Heart. She has received numerous awards including the National Book Award for Them, the PEN/Malamud Award for Excellence in Short Fiction, and the F. Scott Fitzgerald Award for Lifetime Achievement in American Literature. She was a finalist for the 2015 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction with her title Lovely, Dark, Deep. She also wrote a series of suspense novels under the pseudonym Rosamond Smith. In 2015, her novel The Accursed became listed as a bestseller on the iBooks chart. She worked as a professor of English at the University of Windsor, before becoming the Roger S. Berlind Distinguished Professor of Humanities at Princeton University. She and her late husband Raymond J. Smith operated a small press and published a literary magazine, The Ontario Review. (Bowker Author Biography) Joyce Carol Oates is one of the most eminent and prolific literary figures and social critics of our times. She has won the National Book Award and several O. Henry and Pushcart prizes. Among her other awards are an NEA grant, a Guggenheim fellowship, the PEN/Malamud Lifetime Achievement Award, and the F. Scott Fitzgerald Award for Lifetime Achievement in American Literature. (Publisher Provided) show less
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Series
Works by Joyce Carol Oates
Wild Nights!: Stories About the Last Days of Poe, Dickinson, Twain, James, and Hemingway (1985) 427 copies
The Sophisticated Cat: A Gathering of Stories, Poems, and Miscellaneous Writings About Cats (1992) — Editor — 100 copies
Three Plays: Ontological Proof of My Existence/Miracle Play/the Triumph of the Spider Monkey (1980) 8 copies
[unidentified works] 6 copies
Tone Clusters 4 copies
Mastiff 4 copies
The Crossing 4 copies
Family 4 copies
Night Walks: A Bedside Companion 3 copies
Murder for Love/Murder for Women/At the Paradise Hotel Sparks Nevada/Heartbreak House [audio] (1996) 3 copies
Martyrdom [novelette] 3 copies
The Step-Father 3 copies
How I Contemplated the World from the Detroit House of Correction and Began My Life Over Again 3 copies
The Sky-blue Ball 3 copies
############## [short story] 3 copies
Brothers [short story] 3 copies
Curly Red 3 copies
In a Region of Ice [short story] 3 copies
Haunted [short fiction] 3 copies
The Haunting 3 copies
Pumpkin Head 2 copies
The Doll 2 copies
A Brutal Murder in a Public Place [short story] — Author — 2 copies
Give Me Your Heart [short story] 2 copies
El legado de Maude Donegal. El hijo superviviente: Dos novelas de misterio: 482 (Nuevos Tiempos) (2022) 2 copies
Valentine, July Heat Wave 2 copies
The Others 2 copies
Nightless Nights 2 copies
Cupid & Psyche 2 copies
Night-side [short story] 2 copies
The Ruins of Contracoeur 2 copies
In Shock 2 copies
Blonde 2 copies
Blind 2 copies
The Dream-catcher 2 copies
The Corn Maiden [short story] 2 copies
Landfill 2 copies
Vahşi Geceler: Poe, Dickinson, Twain, James ve Hemingway'in Son Günleri Üzerine Hikayeler (Turkish Edition) (2009) 2 copies
The Eclipse 2 copies
Monstruo de ojos verdes 1 copy
Maiden 1 copy
La fille du fossoyeur 1 copy
Ljusets ñgel 1 copy
Frankenstein's Fallen Angel 1 copy
Murder For Revenge 1 copy
The Instructor 1 copy
INFIELES 1 copy
Kadınlar 1 copy
O Boxe Livro 1 1 copy
First marriage 1 copy
Eles 1 copy
Oni 1 copy
The Devil's Half-Acre 1 copy
A Widow’s Story: A Memoir 1 copy
De bingo meester 1 copy
The Hand-puppet 1 copy
Panic 1 copy
Ladies and Gentlemen 1 copy
Face 1 copy
By the River [short story] 1 copy
Murder-Two 1 copy
Happiness 1 copy
The Cousins [short story] 1 copy
The Gathering Squall 1 copy
Nairobi - story 1 copy
Wooded Forms 1 copy
The Lamb of Abyssalia 1 copy
Season of Peril 1 copy
The Miraculous Birth 1 copy
Daisy 1 copy
A Middle-Class Education 1 copy
Raven's Wing: 2 1 copy
The Key & Tone Clusters 1 copy
An Urban Paradox 1 copy
The Sepulchre 1 copy
The Hands 1 copy
Labor Day 1 copy
Posthumous 1 copy
Omen 1 copy
The Sons Of Angus Macelster 1 copy
The Affliction 1 copy
Scars 1 copy
Unprintable 1 copy
Where Are You Going 1 copy
Intensive 1 copy
Death Astride Bicycle 1 copy
Fever Blisters 1 copy
Shadows Of The Evening 1 copy
The Temple 1 copy
Death Mother 1 copy
Angel of Mercy 1 copy
The Life of the Writer, the Life of the Career (The Bennington Chapbooks in Literature) (1995) 1 copy
A Manhattan Romance 1 copy
In Case of Accidental Death 1 copy
Prašmatnūs žmonės: romanas 1 copy
SEVGI DOLUDUR YERYUZU 1 copy
Fossil-Figures 1 copy
Expensive Things 1 copy
Oates, Joyce Carol Archive 1 copy
The Journey 1 copy
Feral 1 copy
The First Husband 1 copy
One Good Turn 1 copy
Stripping 1 copy
The Rose Wall 1 copy
Gay 1 copy
Mistrial 1 copy
The White Cat 1 copy
The Stone Orchard 1 copy
The Interview 1 copy
Where Is Here? [short story] 1 copy
Snowfall 1 copy
It is My Heart 1 copy
Schroeder's Stepfather 1 copy
Funland 1 copy
Associated Works
My Mother She Killed Me, My Father He Ate Me: Forty New Fairy Tales (2010) — Contributor — 982 copies
Literature: An Introduction to Fiction, Poetry, and Drama (1995) — Contributor, some editions — 922 copies
The Scribner Anthology of Contemporary Short Fiction: Fifty North American American Stories Since 1970 (1999) — Contributor — 512 copies
For the Love of Books: 115 Celebrated Writers on the Books They Love Most (1999) — Contributor — 452 copies
McSweeney's Issue 18 (McSweeney's Quarterly Concern) / Wholphin No. 1 (2005) — Contributor — 409 copies
You've Got to Read This: Contemporary American Writers Introduce Stories that Held Them in Awe (1994) — Introduction — 380 copies
Sirens and Other Daemon Lovers: Magical Tales of Love and Seduction (1998) — Contributor — 352 copies
The Art of the Story: An International Anthology of Contemporary Short Stories (1999) — Contributor — 346 copies
McSweeney's Issue 11 (McSweeney's Quarterly Concern): It Can Be Free (2003) — Contributor — 322 copies
Mirror, Mirror on the Wall: Women Writers Explore Their Favorite Fairy Tales (1998) — Contributor — 298 copies
American Fantastic Tales: Terror and the Uncanny from the 1940s to Now (2009) — Contributor — 266 copies
The Writer's Digest Handbook of Short Story Writing, Volume 1 (1970) — Preface, some editions — 248 copies
In Sunlight or In Shadow: Stories Inspired by the Paintings of Edward Hopper (2016) — Contributor — 242 copies
Masterpieces of Terror and the Unknown: A Treasury of Bizarre Tales Old and New (1993) — Contributor — 194 copies
A Convergence of Birds: Original Fiction and Poetry Inspired by Joseph Cornell (2001) — Contributor — 193 copies
First Fiction: An Anthology of the First Published Stories by Famous Writers (1994) — Contributor — 183 copies
An American Album: One Hundred and Fifty Years of Harper's Magazine (2000) — Contributor — 132 copies
Adaptations: From Short Story to Big Screen: 35 Great Stories That Have Inspired Great Films (2005) — Contributor — 122 copies
What My Mother Gave Me: Thirty-one Women on the Gifts That Mattered Most (2013) — Contributor — 95 copies
The Dark End of the Street: New Stories of Sex and Crime by Today's Top Authors (2010) — Contributor — 93 copies
The International Association of Crime Writers Presents Bad Behavior (1995) — Contributor — 90 copies
Freedom: Stories Celebrating the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (2009) — Contributor — 73 copies
Who's Writing This? Notations on the Authorial I, with Self-Portraits {not Antæus} (1995) — Contributor — 72 copies
Mentors, Muses & Monsters: 30 Writers on the People Who Changed Their Lives (2009) — Contributor — 67 copies
More Stories We Tell: The Best Contemporary Short Stories by North American Women (2004) — Contributor — 64 copies
The New Mystery: The International Association of Crime Writers' Essential Crime Writing of the Late 20th Century (1993) — Contributor — 62 copies
The World's Finest Mystery and Crime Stories: First Annual Collection (2000) — Contributor — 59 copies
The Web She Weaves: An Anthology of Mystery and Suspense Stories by Women (1983) — Contributor — 52 copies
The World's Finest Mystery and Crime Stories: Second Annual Collection (2001) — Contributor — 48 copies
Alive in Shape and Color: 16 Paintings by Great Artists and the Stories They Inspired (2019) — Contributor — 47 copies
The World's Finest Mystery and Crime Stories: Third Annual Collection (2002) — Contributor — 43 copies
Between the Dark and the Daylight and 27 More of the Best Crime and Mystery Stories of the Year (2009) — Contributor — 42 copies
Unusual Suspects: A New Anthology of Crime Stories from Black Lizard (1996) — Contributor — 39 copies
Vampires, Zombies, Werewolves and Ghosts: 25 Classic Stories of the Supernatural (2011) — Contributor — 38 copies
Nightmare Magazine, October 2014 (Women Destroy Horror! special issue) (2014) — Composer, some editions — 36 copies
Rediscoveries: Informal Essays in Which Well-Known Novelists Rediscover Neglected Works of Fiction by One of Their… (1971) — Contributor — 27 copies
About Women: An Anthology of Contemporary Fiction, Poetry, and Essays (1973) — Contributor — 26 copies
Selected Shorts: American Classics (Selected Shorts: A Celebration of the Short Story) (2010) — Contributor — 23 copies
The Artists' and Writers' Cookbook: A Collection of Stories with Recipes (2016) — Contributor — 18 copies
Fifty Years of the American Short Story from the O. Henry Awards 1919-1970 (1970) — Contributor — 13 copies
Antaeus No. 64/65, Spring/Autumn 1990 - Twentieth Anniversary Issue (1990) — Contributor — 12 copies
Winter's Tales: New Series No 6 (International Anthology of Stories by New & Established Auth) (1990) — Contributor — 11 copies
The Year's 25 Finest Crime and Mystery Stories: Seventh Annual Edition (1998) — Contributor — 9 copies
Amerika, Amerika bloemlezing — Contributor — 8 copies
Onthebus No. 8 and 9 — Contributor — 6 copies
Antaeus No. 73/74, Spring 1994 - Who’s Writing This: Notations on the Authorial I {magazine} (1994) — Contributor — 5 copies
Roads of Destiny: And Other Tales of Alternative Histories and Parallel Realms: 43 (British Library Tales of the Weird) (2023) — Contributor — 5 copies
Mississippi Review: MR45 — Contributor — 4 copies
F(r)iction no. 13 : The comeback issue — Contributor — 4 copies
Fifty Years of the American Short Story: from the O. Henry Awards 1919-1970 (Volume I) (1970) — Contributor — 3 copies
Killer Crimes — Author — 2 copies
Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine - 2004/03-04 — Contributor — 2 copies
Speaking of Work: A Story of Love, Suspense and Paperclips — Contributor — 1 copy
32 Współczesne Opowiadania Amerykańskie - Tom II — Contributor — 1 copy
Tagged
Common Knowledge
- Legal name
- Oates, Joyce Carol
- Other names
- Kelly, Lauren
Smith, Rosamond - Birthdate
- 1938-06-16
- Gender
- female
- Nationality
- USA
- Birthplace
- Lockport, New York, USA
- Places of residence
- Detroit, Michigan, USA
Princeton, New Jersey, USA - Education
- Syracuse University (B.A. | 1960)
University of Wisconsin-Madison (M.A. | English | 1961) - Occupations
- university professor
author - Relationships
- Smith, Raymond J. (first spouse)
Gross, Charles G. (second spouse) - Organizations
- Princeton University
University of Windsor - Awards and honors
- PEN/Malamud Award (1996)
Bram Stoker Award (Life achievement|1994)
Kenyon Review Award for Literary Achievement (2003)
Humanist of the Year (2007)
National Humanities Medal (2010)
F. Scott Fitzgerald Award for Outstanding Achievement in American Fiction (1998) (show all 9)
Stone Award for Lifetime Literary Achievement (2012)
American Academy of Arts and Letters (Literature ∙ 1978)
Carl Sandburg Literary Award (2002) - Agent
- Warren Frazier (John Hawkins & Associates)
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Discussions
Group Read, November 2021: Blonde in 1001 Books to read before you die (November 2021)
Joyce c oates in Book talk (April 2020)
Group Read, October 2015: them in 1001 Books to read before you die (October 2015)
THE DEEP ONES: "Family" by Joyce Carol Oates in The Weird Tradition (May 2015)
I've never read *******; where should I start? in Virago Modern Classics (January 2014)
August 2013: Joyce Carol Oates in Monthly Author Reads (October 2013)
GROUP READ: Bellefleur (June - August 2011) in Fans of Joyce Carol Oates (January 2012)
JCO memoir 'A Widdow's Story' in Fans of Joyce Carol Oates (June 2011)
Reviews
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katiekrug | 32 other reviews | May 2, 2024 |
katiekrug | 32 other reviews | May 2, 2024 | 
The author has very good character insight. Though a horrific subject, the story is fairly calm, yet realistic.
This review was written for LibraryThing Early Reviewers.Joyce Carol Oates and Greg Johnson started a correspondence in 1975. This correspondence lasted for almost 50 years and covered topics including her work, travels and celebrities she encountered. This exchange of letters turned into a friendship and made it easy for them to share ideas and thoughts. As a reader we get a glimpse into JCO's concerns, delights and sense of humor.
I haven't had the pleasure to read any of Oates's essays or novels, but this book has made me curious to check them out. And as a bonus it has reignited my commitment to letter writing.… (more)
This review was written for LibraryThing Early Reviewers.Joyce Carol Oates : Letters to a Biographer is a surprisingly enjoyable, low-key read. The progression of the author's relationship with JCO, the writerly business, and the background of both personal and public events over the extended timeline were very interesting. JCO comes across as more warm and charming than I expected, as well as sharp and insightful, which was no surprise. I haven't read her biography, or even much of her work, but my TBR list has grown since reading this book.
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I sometimes find Oates' extremes in length don't work - some of her novels are bloated and some of her shorter works feel like they could be a lot longer. Such is the case with this one. It's barely 150 pages, and I wanted more - more background, more fully fleshed out characters, and more story. What there was was intriguing, but for instance
3.75 stars
NB: Content/trigger warnings abound, as you can probably imagine.… (more)