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.
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.
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Series
Garden of Earthly Delights
1. A Garden of Earthly Delights (1967)
2. Expensive People (1968)
3. Them (1969)
1. A Garden of Earthly Delights (1967)
2. Expensive People (1968)
3. Them (1969)
Novels
With Shuddering Fall (1964)
Wonderland (1971)
Do with Me What You Will (1973)
The Assassins: A Book of Hours (1975)
The Childwold (1976)
Son of the Morning (1978)
Cybele (1979)
Unholy Loves (1979)
Bellefleur (1980)
Angel of Light (1981)
A Bloodsmoor Romance (1982)
Luxury of Sin (1983)
Solstice (1984)
Marya: A Life (1986)
You Must Remember This (1987)
American Appetites (1989)
Because It Is Bitter, and Because It Is My Heart (1990)
Foxfire: Confessions of a Girl Gang (1993)
What I Lived For (1994)
Zombie (1995)
We Were the Mulvaneys (1996)
Man Crazy (1997)
My Heart Laid Bare (1998)
Starr Bright Will Be With You Soon (1999)
Broke Heart Blues (1999)
Blonde (2000)
The Barrens (2001)
Middle-Age: A Romance (2001)
Big Mouth and Ugly Girl (2002)
I'll Take You There (2002)
The Tattooed Girl (2003)
Freaky Green Eyes (2003)
Rape: A Love Story (2003)
The Falls (2004)
Sexy (2005)
Mother, Missing (2005)
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: The Intimate Story of Skyler Rampike (2008)
Wonderland (1971)
Do with Me What You Will (1973)
The Assassins: A Book of Hours (1975)
The Childwold (1976)
Son of the Morning (1978)
Cybele (1979)
Unholy Loves (1979)
Bellefleur (1980)
Angel of Light (1981)
A Bloodsmoor Romance (1982)
Luxury of Sin (1983)
Solstice (1984)
Marya: A Life (1986)
You Must Remember This (1987)
American Appetites (1989)
Because It Is Bitter, and Because It Is My Heart (1990)
Foxfire: Confessions of a Girl Gang (1993)
What I Lived For (1994)
Zombie (1995)
We Were the Mulvaneys (1996)
Man Crazy (1997)
My Heart Laid Bare (1998)
Starr Bright Will Be With You Soon (1999)
Broke Heart Blues (1999)
Blonde (2000)
The Barrens (2001)
Middle-Age: A Romance (2001)
Big Mouth and Ugly Girl (2002)
I'll Take You There (2002)
The Tattooed Girl (2003)
Freaky Green Eyes (2003)
Rape: A Love Story (2003)
The Falls (2004)
Sexy (2005)
Mother, Missing (2005)
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: The Intimate Story of Skyler Rampike (2008)
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)
The Wheel of Love (1970)
Wild Saturday: And Other Stories (1970)
Cupid and Psyche (1970)
Love and Its Derangements (poems) (1970)
Marriages and Infidelities (1972)
The Hungry Ghosts: Seven Allusive Comedies (1974)
The Goddess and Other Women (1974)
The Fabulous Beasts (poems) (1975)
The Poisoned Kiss: And Other Stories from the Portuguese (1975) (with Fernandes)
The Seduction: And Other Stories (1975)
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 (1982)
Last Days (1984)
Mysteries of Winterthurn (1984)
Raven's Wing (1986)
The Time Traveler: Poems (poems) (1987)
The Assignation (1988)
Oates in Exile (1990)
Demon: And other tales (1991)
aka Demon
Twelve Plays (1991)
Heat: And Other Stories (1991)
Where Is Here?: Stories (1992)
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 (2006)
High Lonesome: Stories 1966-2006 (2006)
The Museum of Dr. Moses: Tales of Mystery And Suspense (2007)
Wild Nights! (2008)
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)
The Wheel of Love (1970)
Wild Saturday: And Other Stories (1970)
Cupid and Psyche (1970)
Love and Its Derangements (poems) (1970)
Marriages and Infidelities (1972)
The Hungry Ghosts: Seven Allusive Comedies (1974)
The Goddess and Other Women (1974)
The Fabulous Beasts (poems) (1975)
The Poisoned Kiss: And Other Stories from the Portuguese (1975) (with Fernandes)
The Seduction: And Other Stories (1975)
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 (1982)
Last Days (1984)
Mysteries of Winterthurn (1984)
Raven's Wing (1986)
The Time Traveler: Poems (poems) (1987)
The Assignation (1988)
Oates in Exile (1990)
Demon: And other tales (1991)
aka Demon
Twelve Plays (1991)
Heat: And Other Stories (1991)
Where Is Here?: Stories (1992)
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 (2006)
High Lonesome: Stories 1966-2006 (2006)
The Museum of Dr. Moses: Tales of Mystery And Suspense (2007)
Wild Nights! (2008)
Plays
Picture Books
Novellas
The Triumph of the Spider Monkey (1976)
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 (2002)
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 (2002)
Series contributed to
Anthologies edited
Scenes From American Life: Contemporary Short Fiction (1972)
Night Walks (1982)
Story: Fictions Past And Present (1984) (with Boyd Litzinger)
Reading The Fights (1988) (with Daniel Halpern)
The Best American Essays 1991 (1991)
The Oxford Book of American Short Stories (1992)
The Sophisticated Cat: A Gathering of Stories, Poems, And Miscellaneous Writings About Cats (1992) (with Daniel Halpern)
American Gothic Tales (1996)
The Best American Essays of the Century (1996) (with Robert Atawan)
Telling Stories: An Anthology for Writers (1997)
American Fiction Volume 9 (1997)
The Norton Anthology of Contemporary Fiction (1997) (with R V Cassill)
Snapshots: 20th Century Mother-Daughter Fiction (2000) (with Janet Berliner)
Best New American Voices 2003 (2002)
The Best American Mystery Stories 2005 (2005) (with Otto Penzler)
The Best American Mystery Stories (2006)
21st Century Voices: Contemporary American Short Fiction (2008)
Night Walks (1982)
Story: Fictions Past And Present (1984) (with Boyd Litzinger)
Reading The Fights (1988) (with Daniel Halpern)
The Best American Essays 1991 (1991)
The Oxford Book of American Short Stories (1992)
The Sophisticated Cat: A Gathering of Stories, Poems, And Miscellaneous Writings About Cats (1992) (with Daniel Halpern)
American Gothic Tales (1996)
The Best American Essays of the Century (1996) (with Robert Atawan)
Telling Stories: An Anthology for Writers (1997)
American Fiction Volume 9 (1997)
The Norton Anthology of Contemporary Fiction (1997) (with R V Cassill)
Snapshots: 20th Century Mother-Daughter Fiction (2000) (with Janet Berliner)
Best New American Voices 2003 (2002)
The Best American Mystery Stories 2005 (2005) (with Otto Penzler)
The Best American Mystery Stories (2006)
21st Century Voices: Contemporary American Short Fiction (2008)
Non fiction
Edge of Impossibility: Tragic Forms in Literature (1972)
The Hostile Sun: The Poetry of D. H. Lawrence (1973) (see D H Lawrence)
New Heaven, New Earth: The Visionary Experience in Literature (1974)
Contraries (1981)
The Profane Art : Essays and Reviews (1983)
First Person Singular: Writers on Their Craft (1983)
On Boxing (1987)
Woman Writer: Occasions And Opportunities (1988)
George Bellows: American Artist (1995)
The Life of the Writer, the Life of the Career: Prolegomena to a Personal Ethics (1995)
The Faith of a Writer: Life, Craft, Art (2003)
Uncensored: Views And (Re)views (2005)
The Journal of Joyce Carol Oates: 1973-1982 (2007)
The Hostile Sun: The Poetry of D. H. Lawrence (1973) (see D H Lawrence)
New Heaven, New Earth: The Visionary Experience in Literature (1974)
Contraries (1981)
The Profane Art : Essays and Reviews (1983)
First Person Singular: Writers on Their Craft (1983)
On Boxing (1987)
Woman Writer: Occasions And Opportunities (1988)
George Bellows: American Artist (1995)
The Life of the Writer, the Life of the Career: Prolegomena to a Personal Ethics (1995)
The Faith of a Writer: Life, Craft, Art (2003)
Uncensored: Views And (Re)views (2005)
The Journal of Joyce Carol Oates: 1973-1982 (2007)
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 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)
Short stories
| The Secret Mirror (1975) | |||
| Fatal Woman (1977) | |||
| Further Confessions (1977) | |||
| The Murder (1977) | |||
| Night-Side (1977) | |||
| Bellefleur (excerpt) (1980) | |||
| The Bingo Master (1980) | |||
| The Doll (1980) | |||
| The Virgin in the Rose-Bower (1984) | |||
| Desire (1987) | |||
| Haunted (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) |

