Home    New Authors    New Books    Coming Soon    Most Popular    Top Authors
Joyce Carol Oates's picture

Joyce Carol Oates

USA  (1938 - )
aka
Lauren Kelly, Rosamond Smith
Search Authors

Search Books

 
About Joyce Carol Oates
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.
 
New and Forthcoming Hardbacks
The Corn Maiden
The Corn Maiden
Mudwoman
Mudwoman

New and Forthcoming Paperbacks
Mudwoman
Mudwoman

Series
Garden of Earthly Delights
1. A Garden of Earthly Delights (1966)
2. Expensive People (1968)
3. Them (1969)
A Garden of Earthly DelightsExpensive PeopleThem
 
Novels
With Shuddering FallWonderlandDo with Me What You WillThe Assassins: A Book of Hours
ChildwoldSon of the MorningCybeleUnholy Loves
BellefleurAngel of LightA Bloodsmoor RomanceLuxury of Sin
SolsticeMarya: A LifeYou Must Remember ThisAmerican Appetites
Because It Is Bitter, and Because It Is My HeartFoxfire: Confessions of a Girl GangWhat I Lived ForZombie
We Were the MulvaneysMan CrazyMy Heart Laid BareStarr Bright Will Be With You Soon
Broke Heart BluesBlondeMiddle-Age: A RomanceThe Barrens
Big Mouth and Ugly GirlI'll Take You ThereThe Tattooed GirlFreaky Green Eyes
The FallsSexyMother, MissingAfter the Wreck, I Picked Myself Up, Spread My Wings, and Flew Away
Black Girl, White GirlThe Gravedigger's DaughterMy Sister, My Love: The Intimate Story of Skyler RampikeLittle Bird Of Heaven
A Fair MaidenMudwoman
 
Collections
By the North Gate (1963)
Upon the Sweeping Flood: And Other Stories (1966)
Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?: Stories of Young America (1966)
Anonymous Sins: And Other Poems (poems) (1969)
Cupid and Psyche (1970)
Love and Its Derangements (poems) (1970)
Wild Saturday: And Other Stories (1970)
The Wheel of Love (1970)
Marriages and Infidelities (1972)
The Hungry Ghosts: Seven Allusive Comedies (1974)
The Goddess and Other Women (1974)
The Seduction: And Other Stories (1975)
The Fabulous Beasts (poems) (1975)
The Poisoned Kiss: And Other Stories from the Portuguese (1975) (with Fernandes)
Crossing the Border: Fifteen Tales (1976)
Night-Side: 18 Tales (1977)
Women Whose Lives Are Food, Men Whose Lives Are Money: Poems (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 (poems) (1987)
The Assignation (1988)
Oates in Exile (1990)
Demon: And other tales (1991)
Twelve Plays (1991)
Heat: And Other Stories (1991)
Where Is Here?: Stories (1992)
Deadly Sins (1993) (with Antonia S Byatt, Mary Gordon, Richard Howard, Thomas Pynchon, William Trevor, John Updike and Gore Vidal)
Haunted: Tales of the Grotesque (1994)
Will You Always Love Me?: And Other Stories (1994)
The Perfectionist: And Other Plays (1995)
Tenderness: Poems (poems) (1996)
The Collector of Hearts: New Tales of the Grotesque (1996)
New Plays (1998)
Where I've Been, and Where I'm Going: Essays, Reviews, and Prose (1999)
Faithless: Tales of Transgression (2001)
Small Avalanches: And Other Stories (2003)
I Am No One You Know: Stories (2004)
The Female of the Species: Tales of Mystery And Suspense (2005)
High Lonesome: Stories 1966-2006 (2006)
The Museum of Dr. Moses: Tales of Mystery And Suspense (2007)
Poolside (2007) (with Alice Adams, Amy Bloom, John Cheever, Ernest Hemingway, A M Homes, Andrea Lee, Edna O'Brien, Julie Orringer, James Purdy, Graham Swift, John Updike, David Foster Wallace and Fay Weldon)
Wild Nights! (2008)
Dear Husband (2009)
Gulf War / Black: Two Short Plays by Joyce Carol Oates (2009)
Sourland (2010)
Between the Dark and the Daylight: And 27 More of the Best Crime and Mystery Stories of the Year (2010) (with Megan Abbott, Charles Ardai, Sean Chercover, Michael Connelly, Bill Crider, Charlaine Harris, Jeremiah Healy, T Jefferson Parker and Scott Phillips)
What You Wish For: A Book for Darfur (2011) (with Jeanne DuPrau, Nikki Giovanni, John Green, Karen Hesse, Alexander McCall Smith, Naomi Shihab Nye, Sofia Quintero and Jane Yolen)
The Corn Maiden (2011)
Give Me Your Heart: Tales of Mystery and Suspense (2011)
By the North GateUpon the Sweeping Flood: And Other StoriesWhere Are You Going, Where Have You Been?: Stories of Young AmericaAnonymous Sins: And Other Poems
Cupid and PsycheLove and Its DerangementsWild Saturday: And Other StoriesThe Wheel of Love
Marriages and InfidelitiesThe Hungry Ghosts: Seven Allusive ComediesThe Goddess and Other WomenThe Seduction: And Other Stories
The Fabulous BeastsThe Poisoned Kiss: And Other Stories from the PortugueseCrossing the Border: Fifteen TalesNight-Side: 18 Tales
Women Whose Lives Are Food, Men Whose Lives Are Money: PoemsAll the Good People I've Left BehindThree PlaysA Sentimental Education
Invisible WomanMysteries of WinterthurnLast DaysRaven's Wing
The Time Traveler: PoemsThe AssignationOates in ExileDemon: And other tales
Twelve PlaysHeat: And Other StoriesWhere Is Here?: StoriesDeadly Sins
Haunted: Tales of the GrotesqueWill You Always Love Me?: And Other StoriesThe Perfectionist: And Other PlaysTenderness: Poems
The Collector of Hearts: New Tales of the GrotesqueNew PlaysWhere I've Been, and Where I'm Going: Essays, Reviews, and ProseFaithless: Tales of Transgression
Small Avalanches: And Other StoriesI Am No One You Know: StoriesThe Female of the Species: Tales of Mystery And SuspenseHigh Lonesome: Stories 1966-2006
The Museum of Dr. Moses: Tales of Mystery And SuspensePoolsideWild Nights!Dear Husband
Gulf War / Black: Two Short Plays by Joyce Carol OatesSourlandBetween the Dark and the Daylight: And 27 More of the Best Crime and Mystery Stories of the YearWhat You Wish For: A Book for Darfur
The Corn MaidenGive Me Your Heart: Tales of Mystery and Suspense
 
Plays
Miracle Play
 
Picture Books
Come Meet Muffin!Where Is Little ReynardNaughty Cherie!
 
Novellas
The Triumph of the Spider MonkeyI Lock My Door Upon MyselfThe Rise of Life On EarthBlack Water
First LoveDevil's Half AcreBeastsRape: A Love Story
 
Series contributed to
The Best American Short Stories 1979
 
The Best American Mystery Stories 2005The Best American Mystery Stories
 
Chasing Shadows
 
Anthologies edited
Scenes From American Life: Contemporary Short FictionNight WalksReading The FightsThe Best American Essays 1991
The Sophisticated Cat: A Gathering of Stories, Poems, And Miscellaneous Writings About CatsThe Oxford Book of American Short StoriesAmerican Gothic TalesThe Best American Essays of the Century
American Fiction Volume 9Telling Stories: An Anthology for WritersThe Norton Anthology of Contemporary FictionSnapshots: 20th Century Mother-Daughter Fiction
Best New American Voices 200321st Century Voices: Contemporary American Short FictionNew Jersey Noir
 
Non fiction
Edge of Impossibility: Tragic Forms in LiteratureThe Hostile Sun: The Poetry of D. H. LawrenceNew Heaven, New Earth: The Visionary Experience in LiteratureContraries
The Profane Art : Essays and ReviewsOn BoxingWoman Writer: Occasions And OpportunitiesGeorge Bellows: American Artist
The Faith of a Writer: Life, Craft, ArtUncensored: Views And (Re)viewsThe Journal of Joyce Carol Oates: 1973-1982Muhammad Ali: Ringside
In Rough CountryA Widow's Story
 
Anthologies containing stories by Joyce Carol Oates
The Twilight Zone (1972)
Dark Forces (1980)
The Giant Book of Horror Stories (1981)
Great Tales of Mystery and Suspense (1981)
Haunted Houses: The Greatest Stories (1983)
The Slaying of the Dragon: Modern Tales of the Playful Imagination (1984)
Witches' Brew: Horror and Supernatural Stories by Women (1984)
The Architecture of Fear (1987)
A Century of Horror 1970-1979: The Greatest Stories of the Decade (1987)
Lord John Ten (1987)
The Year's Best Fantasy First Annual Collection (1988)
Skin of the Soul (1990)
Urban Horrors (1990)
The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror Third Annual Collection (1990)
The Literary Ghost: Great Contemporary Ghost Stories (1991)
The New Gothic: A Collection of Contemporary Gothic Fiction (1991)
The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror Fourth Annual Collection (1991)
Masterpieces of Terror and the Unknown (1992)
The Oxford Book of Gothic Tales (1992)
Great American Ghost Stories, Volume Two (1993)
Omni Visions One (1993)
The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror Sixth Annual Collection (1993)
Doubles, Dummies and Dolls: 21 Terror Tales of Replication (1994)
Fear Itself (1994)
The King Is Dead: Tales of Elvis Post-Mortem (1994)
David Copperfield's Tales of the Impossible (1995)
Desire Burn: Women's Stories From the Dark Side of Passion (1995)
The Penguin Book of Modern Fantasy by Women (1995)
Ruby Slippers, Golden Tears (1995)
The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror Eighth Annual Collection (1995)
American Gothic Tales (1996)
Lethal Kisses (1996)
Off Limits: Tales of Alien Sex (1996)
Twists of the Tale (1996)
The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror Ninth Annual Collection (1996)
The Best of the Best (1997)
Black Swan, White Raven (1997)
Blood Thirst: 100 Years of Vampire Fiction (1997)
Crimes of Passion (1997)
Wild Women (1997)
Crossing the Border: Tales of Erotic Ambiguity (1998)
Great Ghost Stories (1998)
Mistresses of the Dark: 25 Macabre Tales by Master Storytellers (1998)
Sirens and Other Daemon Lovers: Magical Tales of Love and Seduction (1998)
The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror Eleventh Annual Collection (1998)
999 (1999)
Nightshade: 20th Century Ghost Stories (1999)
Black Heart, Ivory Bones (2000)
Dark ForcesThe Giant Book of Horror StoriesGreat Tales of Mystery and SuspenseHaunted Houses: The Greatest Stories
Witches' Brew: Horror and Supernatural Stories by WomenThe Architecture of FearA Century of Horror 1970-1979: The Greatest Stories of the DecadeLord John Ten
The Year's Best Fantasy First Annual CollectionSkin of the SoulUrban HorrorsThe Year's Best Fantasy and Horror Third Annual Collection
The Literary Ghost: Great Contemporary Ghost StoriesThe New Gothic: A Collection of Contemporary Gothic FictionThe Year's Best Fantasy and Horror Fourth Annual CollectionMasterpieces of Terror and the Unknown
The Oxford Book of Gothic TalesGreat American Ghost Stories, Volume TwoThe Year's Best Fantasy and Horror Sixth Annual CollectionDoubles, Dummies and Dolls: 21 Terror Tales of Replication
Fear ItselfThe King Is Dead: Tales of Elvis Post-MortemDavid Copperfield's Tales of the ImpossibleDesire Burn: Women's Stories From the Dark Side of Passion
The Penguin Book of Modern Fantasy by WomenRuby Slippers, Golden TearsThe Year's Best Fantasy and Horror Eighth Annual CollectionAmerican Gothic Tales
Lethal KissesOff Limits: Tales of Alien SexTwists of the TaleThe Year's Best Fantasy and Horror Ninth Annual Collection
The Best of the BestBlack Swan, White RavenBlood Thirst: 100 Years of Vampire FictionCrimes of Passion
Wild WomenGreat Ghost StoriesSirens and Other Daemon Lovers: Magical Tales of Love and SeductionThe Year's Best Fantasy and Horror Eleventh Annual Collection
999Nightshade: 20th Century Ghost StoriesBlack Heart, Ivory Bones
 
Short stories
The Secret Mirror (1975)
Fatal Woman (1977)
Further Confessions (1977)
The Murder (1977)
Night-Side [short story] (1977)
Bellefleur (excerpt) (1980)
The Bingo Master (1980)
The Doll (1980)
The Virgin in the Rose-Bower (1984)
Desire (1987)
Haunted [short story] (1987)
The Others (1987)
The White Cat (1987)
Blue-Bearded Lover (1988)
Secret Observations on the Goat Girl (1988)
White Trash (1988)
Did You Ever Slip on Red Blood? (1989)
Family (1989)
Pregnant (1989)
Ladies and Gentlemen (1990)
Why Don't You Come Live With Me It's Time [from Tikkun] (1990)
The Guilty Party (1991)
Accursed Inhabitants of the House of Bly (1992)
Don't You Trust Me? (1992)
Extenuating Circumstances (1992)
Letter, Lover (1992)
Martyrdom (1992)
The Model (1992)
Poor Bibi (1992)
The Premonition (1992)
Phase Change (1993)
The Radio Astronomer (1993)
Thanksgiving (1993)
Blind (1994)
Brothers (1994)
Elvis Is Dead: Why Are You Alive? (1994)
############## (1995)
The Crossing (1995)
The Hand-Puppet (1995)
The Dream-Catcher (1996)
Leave Me Alone God Damn You (1996)
Nobody Knows My Name (1996)
The Temple (1996)
In the Insomniac Night (1997)
The Sky-Blue Ball (1997)
Starr Bright Will Be with You Soon! (1997)
Broke Heart Blues [short story] (1998)
Color Blind (1998)
The Ruins of Contracoeur (1999)
In Shock (2000)Bram Stoker (nominee)
You, Little Match-girl (2000)
The Abduction
Accident
Ace
Adultress
Anecdote
The Assignation [short story]
August Evening
Bad Habits
The Boy
The Bystander
Eleutheria
Face
Fin de Siecle
Heartland
Holiday
In Traction
Maximum Security
Mule
One Flesh
Only Son
Party
Photographer's Model
Picnic
Pinch
The Quarrel
Romance
Secret
Senorita
A Sentimental Encounter
Sharpshooting
Shelter
Slow
The Stadium
Stroke
Superstitious
Tick
A Touch of the Flu
Train
Two Doors
Visitation Rights


Awards
National Book Award for Fiction Best Novel winner (1970) : Them
PEN/Faulkner Award for fiction Best Novel nominee (1995) : What I Lived For
Bram Stoker Best Novellette nominee (2001) : In Shock
Oprah's Book Club Best Novel nominee (2001) : We Were the Mulvaneys
James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Fiction Best Novel nominee (2005) : Mother, Missing
Orange Prize for Fiction Best Novel nominee (2005) : The Falls


Books about Joyce Carol Oates
Conversations with Joyce Carol OatesInvisible Writer: A Biography of Joyce Carol Oate
 
Joyce Carol Oates recommends
Hunter's Horn
Hunter's Horn (1949)
Harriette Arnow
"Our most unpretentious American masterpiece."
The Perfectionists
The Perfectionists (1970)
Gail Godwin
"Engrossing and mysterious... A perfectly structured story, with characters that are recognizably human and with whom one can 'identify'."
The Book of Daniel
The Book of Daniel (1971)
E L Doctorow
"A nearly perfect work of art, a cause for rejoicing."
Stories of Breece D'J Pancake
Stories of Breece D'J Pancake (1983)
Breece D'J Pancake
"One is tempted to compare his debut to Hemingway's."
Hawksmoor
Hawksmoor (1985)
Peter Ackroyd
"Mr Ackroyd is a virtuoso writer whose prose is a continual pleasure to read...An unfailingly intelligent work of the imagination."
Rock Springs
Rock Springs (1987)
Richard Ford
"Beautifully imagined and crafted stories, by turns heartrending and wickedly funny; and just plain wicked. Richard Ford is a born storyteller with an inimitable lyric voice, and Rock Springs is the very poetry of realism."
The Way the Angel Spreads Her Wings
The Way the Angel Spreads Her Wings (1989)
Barry Callaghan
"Prose of heartstopping beauty."
I Pass Like Night
I Pass Like Night (1989)
Jonathan Ames
"Disturbing and funny... a striking debut."
Women & Other Animals
Women & Other Animals (1999)
Bonnie Jo Campbell
"These stories are filled with marvelously rendered details and character portraits that seem to me absolutely convincing, as real as if I were perceiving them through an opened window. "
Beautiful Dreamer
Beautiful Dreamer (2002)
Christopher Bigsby
"A tautly written and almost unbearably suspenseful parable of the tragedy of race relations in a backcountry Tennessee setting of some decades ago. It's a powerful Faulknerian vision made stark and compelling by its spare and pitiless language."
Ariel's Crossing
Ariel's Crossing (2002)
(New Mexico, book 2)
Bradford Morrow
"An ambitious, rich, and original story of love, rapture, the end and the beginning of things."
Girl Meets Boy: The Myth of Iphis
Girl Meets Boy: The Myth of Iphis (2007)
(Myths, book 8)
Ali Smith
"Ali Smith is a true original."
The Lovers
The Lovers (2010)
Vendela Vida
"Vendela Vida has written a riveting and suspenseful novel about an American woman's voyage to self-discovery as she travels alone in Turkey. Though the aura of dread mounts, as in one of Paul Bowles' eerie and unnerving works of fiction, there are surprising revelations here, and an utterly unpredictable ending."
Heir To the Everlasting
Heir To the Everlasting (2011)
Janice Daugharty
"Janice Daugharty is a born storyteller."



Visitors to this page also looked at these authors
James Patterson
Jodi Picoult
John Sandford
Fern Michaels
Nora Roberts
Sara Paretsky
Robert B Parker
Kathy Reichs
Kevin O'Brien
Gregg Olsen
Karen E Olson
Janette Oke
Carol O'Connell
Haruki Murakami
Mel Odom



Search for    

© 2012 FantasticFiction     Bibliography by D C Wands and P G Wands     Last Updated:
Questions? Comments? Corrections? Please email webmaster@fantasticfiction.co.uk