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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 ...
Joyce Carol Oates. Twayne Publishers, New York. Warren G. French, editor. ISBN 0-8057-7212-X; Johnson, Greg. 1994. Joyce Carol Oates: A Study of the Short Fiction. Twayne's studies in short fiction; no. 57. Twayne Publishers, New York. ISBN 0-8057-0857-X; Oates, Joyce Carol. 1970. The Wheel of Love. Vanguard Press, New York. ISBN 978-0814906767
Death. The Stars. is a 2020 novel by American writer Joyce Carol Oates , about a man who was killed by the police and the aftermath of his death on his family. [ 1 ] Its title comes from a poem by Walt Whitman .
“The Dead” is a work of short fiction by Joyce Carol Oates originally published in McCall’s (July 1971), and first collected in Marriages and Infidelities (1972) by Vanguard Press. [1]
Smith's widow, Joyce Carol Oates, published a memoir in February 2011 recounting their nearly 47-year marriage and her struggle to cope with his sudden death. According to Oates, he became ill at home in mid-February 2008 and was admitted to the Princeton Medical Center, diagnosed with a virulent form of pneumonia. He was still in the hospital ...
Critical reception for The Corn Maiden and Other Nightmares has been positive, with Kirkus Reviews calling the book "nightmarish". [2] Publishers Weekly praised the book, calling Oates "a master of psychological dread" but wrote that the audio book's narrator Christine Williams "lacks the emotional punch and range displayed" by the book's other narrator.
Heat and Other Stories is a collection of 25 works of short fiction by Joyce Carol Oates published by E. P. Dutton in 1991. [1]This volume serves as “a postmodernist allegory of contemporary America” in which Oates returns to the settings of her early fiction in rural western New York state.
In an addendum to the afterword, Oates said that the "realist" element was a literary device: all characters and events were entirely fictional. She wrote Maureen's letters, and the "Miss Oates" to whom the letters are written is also a fictional character. At the time (1962–1967), Oates used the name of Joyce Smith. [3]