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Joyce Carol Oates


USA flag (b.1938)

aka Lauren Kelly, Rosamond Smith

Award-winning author, Joyce Carol Oates was born in 1938 and grew up in upstate New York.While a scholarship student at Syracuse University, she won the coveted Mademoiselle fiction contest. She graduated as valedictorian, then earned an M.A. at the University of Wisconsin.In 1968, she began teaching at the University of Windsor.In 1978, she moved to New Jersey to teach creative writing at Princeton University, where she is now the Roger S. Berlind Distinguished Professor of the Humanities.

A prolific writer, Joyce Carol Oates has produced some of the most controversial, and lasting, fiction of our time.Her novel, them, set in racially volatile 1960s Detroit, won the 1970 National Book Award. Because It Is Bitter, and Because It Is My Heart focused on an interracial teenage romance. Black Water, a narrative based on the Kennedy-Chappaquiddick scandal, garnered a Pulitzer Prize nomination, and her national bestseller Blonde, an epic work on American icon Marilyn Monroe, became a National Book Award Finalist. Although Joyce Carol Oates has called herself, "a serious writer, as distinct from entertainers or propagandists," her novels have enthralled a wide audience, and We Were the Mulvaneys earned the #1 spot on the New York Times bestseller list.
 

Genres: Literary Fiction, Mystery, Horror, Science Fiction, General Fiction
 
New and upcoming books
January 2024

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A Darker Shade
 
May 2024

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Butcher
 
November 2024

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Flint Kill Creek
 
Series
Wonderland Quartet
   1. A Garden of Earthly Delights (1966)
   2. Expensive People (1968)
   3. Them (1969)
   4. Wonderland (1971)
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Novels
   With Shuddering Fall (1964)
   Do with Me What You Will (1973)
   The Assassins (1975)
   Childwold (1976)
   Son of the Morning (1978)
   Unholy Loves (1979)
   Cybele (1979)
   Bellefleur (1980)
   Angel of Light (1981)
   Luxury of Sin (1983)
   Solstice (1985)
   Marya (1986)
   You Must Remember This (1987)
   Lives of the Twins (1987) (as by Rosamond Smith)
     aka Kindred Passions
   American Appetites (1989)
   Soul/Mate (1989) (as by Rosamond Smith)
   Because It Is Bitter, and Because It Is My Heart (1990)
   Nemesis (1990) (as by Rosamond Smith)
   Snake Eyes (1992) (as by Rosamond Smith)
   Foxfire (1993)
   What I Lived For (1994)
   You Can't Catch Me (1995) (as by Rosamond Smith)
   Zombie (1995)
   We Were the Mulvaneys (1996)
   Double Delight (1997) (as by Rosamond Smith)
   Man Crazy (1997)
   Starr Bright Will Be With You Soon (1999) (as by Rosamond Smith)
   Broke Heart Blues (1999)
   Blonde (2000)
   The Barrens (2001) (as by Rosamond Smith)
   Middle-Age (2001)
   Big Mouth and Ugly Girl (2002)
   I'll Take You There (2002)
   The Tattooed Girl (2003)
   Freaky Green Eyes (2003)
   The Falls (2004)
   Take Me, Take Me with You (2004) (as by Lauren Kelly)
   Sexy (2005)
   The Stolen Heart (2005) (as by Lauren Kelly)
   Missing Mom (2005)
     aka Mother, Missing
   Blood Mask (2006) (as by Lauren Kelly)
   After the Wreck, I Picked Myself Up, Spread My Wings, and Flew Away (2006)
   Black Girl, White Girl (2006)
   The Gravedigger's Daughter (2007)
   My Sister, My Love (2008)
   Little Bird Of Heaven (2009)
   A Fair Maiden (2010)
   Mudwoman (2012)
   Two or Three Things I Forgot to Tell You (2012)
   Carthage (2013)
   Daddy Love (2013)
   The Accursed (2013)
   The Sacrifice (2015)
   Jack of Spades (2015)
   The Man Without a Shadow (2016)
   A Book of American Martyrs (2017)
   Hazards of Time Travel (2018)
   My Life as a Rat (2019)
   Pursuit (2019)
   Night. Sleep. Death. The Stars (2020)
   Breathe (2021)
   Babysitter (2022)
   48 Clues into the Disappearance of My Sister (2023)
   Butcher (2024)
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Collections
   By the North Gate (1963)
   Upon the Sweeping Flood (1966)
   Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been? (1966)
   Anonymous Sins (poems) (1969)
   Cupid and Psyche (1970)
   Love and Its Derangements (poems) (1970)
   The Wheel of Love (1970)
   Wild Saturday (1970)
   Marriages and Infidelities (1972)
   Angel Fire (poems) (1973)
   The Goddess and Other Women (1974)
   The Hungry Ghosts (1974)
   The Poisoned Kiss (1975) (with Fernandes)
   The Seduction (1975)
   The Fabulous Beasts (poems) (1975)
   Crossing the Border (1976)
   Night-Side (1977)
   Women Whose Lives Are Food, Men Whose Lives Are Money (poems) (1978)
   All the Good People I've Left Behind (1978)
   Three Plays (1980)
   A Sentimental Education (1981)
   Invisible Woman (poems) (1982)
   Mysteries of Winterthurn (1984)
   Last Days (1984)
   Raven's Wing (1986)
   The Time Traveler (poems) (1987)
   The Assignation (1988)
   Demon (1991)
   Oates in Exile (1991)
   Heat (1991)
   Twelve Plays (1991)
   Where Is Here? (1992)
   Haunted (1994)
   Deadly Sins (1994) (with others)
   Will You Always Love Me? (1994)
   The Perfectionist (1995)
   The Collector of Hearts (1996)
   Tenderness (poems) (1996)
   New Plays (1998)
   Where I've Been, and Where I'm Going (1999)
   Faithless (2001)
   Small Avalanches (2003)
   I Am No One You Know (2004)
   The Female of the Species (2005)
   High Lonesome (2006)
   Poolside (2007) (with others)
   The Museum of Dr. Moses (2007)
   Wild Nights! (2008)
   Gulf War / Black (2009)
   Dear Husband (2009)
   Sourland (2010)
   Give Me Your Heart (2011)
   What You Wish For: A Book for Darfur (2011) (with others)
   The Corn Maiden (2011)
   Black Dahlia & White Rose (2012)
   High Crime Area (2014)
   Lovely, Dark, Deep (2014)
   The Doll-Master (2016)
   Dis Mem Ber (2017)
   Beautiful Days (2018)
   Night-Gaunts (2018)
   The (Other) You (2021)
   Night, Neon (2021)
   Extenuating Circumstances (2022)
   Zero Sum (2023)
   Flint Kill Creek (2024)
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Novellas and Short Stories
   The Triumph of the Spider Monkey (1976)
   The Bingo Master (1980)
   I Lock My Door Upon Myself (1990)
   The Rise of Life On Earth (1991)
   Black Water (1992)
   First Love (1996)
   Devil's Half Acre (1997)
   Beasts (2001)
   Rape (2003)
   Spotted Hyenas (2012)
   Patricide (2012)
   The Rescuer (2012)
   The Sign of the Beast (2017)
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Anthologies edited
   Scenes From American Life (1973)
   Night Walks (1982)
   Story (1985) (with Boyd Litzinger)
   The Oxford Book of American Short Stories (1992)
   The Sophisticated Cat (1992) (with Daniel Halpern)
   American Gothic Tales (1996)
   The Norton Anthology of Contemporary Fiction (1997) (with R V Cassill)
   American Fiction Volume 9 (1997)
   Telling Stories (1997)
   Snapshots (2000) (with Janet Berliner)
   Best New American Voices 2003 (2002)
   The Ecco Anthology of Contemporary American Short Fiction (2008) (with Christopher Beha)
   Cutting Edge (2019)
   A Darker Shade of Noir (2023)
   A Darker Shade (2024)
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Plays show
 
Picture Books show
 
Non fiction show
 
Omnibus editions show
 
Joyce Carol Oates recommends
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The Lost Van Gogh (2024)
Jonathan Santlofer
"Ingeniously plotted, irresistibly readable, brimming with inside information about the high-stakes art world of theft, forgery, and murder...Also included are brilliantly rendered drawings by the author, who is as accomplished an artist as he is a writer of suspense thrillers."
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The Truth About Horses (2023)
Christy Cashman and Christy Cashnman
"What an irresistibly readable novel Christy Cashman has written! Her young heroine Reese is an astonishing creation, warmly sympathetic, impulsive, unpredictable, brash, loyal and loving, endearing, exasperating, most of all memorable - a triumphant portrait of tumultuous adolescence in our time. The Truth About Horses plunges us into a beautifully evoked rural world in which horses are both magnificent beasts requiring human love and devotion, and iconic creatures out of mythology."
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The Bequest (2022)
Joanna Margaret
"Richly atmospheric and irresistibly readable."

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Anthologies containing stories by Joyce Carol Oates
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Simpsonistas, Vol. 5 (2023)
(Simpsonistas, book 5)
edited by
Joseph Di Prisco
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Best American Mystery and Suspense 2023 (2023)
(Best American Mystery and Suspense)
edited by
Steph Cha and Lisa Unger

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Awards
National Book Award for Fiction Best Book winner (1970) : Them
National Book Award for Fiction Best Book nominee (1990) : Because It Is Bitter, and Because It Is My Heart
Pulitzer Prize for Fiction Best Book nominee (1993) : Black Water
PEN/Faulkner Award for fiction Best Book nominee (1995) : What I Lived For
Pulitzer Prize for Fiction Best Book nominee (1995) : What I Lived For
Bram Stoker Best Novel winner (1996) : Zombie
National Book Award for Fiction Best Book nominee (2000) : Blonde
Bram Stoker Best Novellette nominee (2001) : In Shock
Oprah's Book Club Best Book nominee (2001) : We Were the Mulvaneys
Pulitzer Prize for Fiction Best Book nominee (2001) : Blonde
Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction Best Book nominee (2005) : The Falls
James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Fiction Best Book nominee (2005) : Missing Mom
International IMPAC Dublin Literary Awards Best Novel nominee (2011) : Little Bird Of Heaven
Bram Stoker Best Collection winner (2012) : Black Dahlia & White Rose
Pulitzer Prize for Fiction Best Book nominee (2015) : Lovely, Dark, Deep


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