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Joyce Carol Oates

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Joyce Carol Oates (born June 16, 1938 in Lockport, New York) is an United States|American writer of novels, short stories, plays, poetry, and non-fiction.

Life



Oates grew up in the New York countryside, attending a one-room schoolhouse for her elementary education. She wrote stories as a child and, when she received a typewriter at age 14, began writing novels throughout high school and college.

Career



Oates has also written several books, mostly mystery novels, under the pen names Rosamond Smith and Lauren Kelly.

Many feel Oates' most famous work is her short story entitled Where Are you Going, Where Have You Been?, which was the basis for a movie, Smooth Talk, starring Laura Dern. It tells the tale of a young woman whose desire to "grow up" has her falling under the spell of a man whose intentions are decidedly unclear. It has been reprinted in numerous collections and is dedicated to singer Bob Dylan, as Oates was listening to Dylan's song "It's All Over Now, Baby Blue" when she got the inspiration for the story. It is loosely based on the serial killer Charles Schmid.http://www.crimelibrary.com/serial_killers/predators/schmid/oates_9.html

Bibliography



Novels

  • With Shuddering Fall (1964)

  • A Garden of Earthly Delights (1967)

  • Expensive People (1968)

  • Them (novel)|them (1969)

  • Wonderland (1971)

  • Do with Me What You Will (1973)

  • The Assassins: A Book of Hours (1975)

  • Childwold (1976)

  • Son of the Morning (1978)

  • Cybele (1979)

  • Unholy Loves (1979)

  • Bellefleur (1980)

  • Angel of Light (1981)

  • A Bloodsmoor Romance (1982)

  • Mysteries of Winterthurn (1984)

  • Solstice (1985)

  • 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 in literature|1993; the basis for the 1996 in film|1996 film Foxfire (1996 movie)|Foxfire)

  • What I Lived For (1994)

  • Zombie (1995)

  • We Were the Mulvaneys (1996)

  • Man Crazy (1997)

  • My Heart Laid Bare (1998)

  • Broke Heart Blues (1999)

  • Blonde (2000)

  • Middle Age: A Romance (2001)

  • I'll Take You There (2002)

  • The Tattooed Girl (2003)

  • The Falls (2004)

  • Missing Mom (2005)


Novels as "Rosamond Smith"

  • Lives of the Twins (1987)

  • Soul/Mate (1989)

  • Nemesis (1990)

  • Snake Eyes (1992)

  • You Can't Catch Me (1995)

  • Double Delight (1997)

  • Starr Bright Will Be With you Soon (1999)

  • The Barrens (2001)


Novels as "Lauren Kelly"

  • Take Me, Take Me With You (2003)

  • The Stolen Heart (2005)


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: A Gothic Tale (1996)

  • Beasts (2002)

  • Rape: A Love Story (2003)


Short Story Collections

  • By the North Gate (1963)

  • Upon the Sweeping Flood And Other Stories (1966)

  • The Wheel of Love And Other Stories (1970)

  • Marriages and Infidelities (1972)

  • The Goddess and Other Women (1974)

  • The Hungry Ghosts: Seven Allusive Comedies (1974)

  • Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been? : Stories of Young America (1974)

  • The Poisoned Kiss And Other Stories from the Portuguese (1975)

  • The Seduction & Other Stories (1975)

  • Crossing the Border (1976)

  • Night-Side (1977)

  • All the Good People I've Left Behind (1979)

  • A Sentimental Education: Stories (1980)

  • Last Days: Stories (1984)

  • Wild Saturday (1984)

  • Raven's Wing: Stories (1986)

  • The Assignation: Stories (1989)

  • Oates In Exile (1990)

  • Heat And Other Stories (1991)

  • Where Is Here? (1992)

  • Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?: Selected Early Stories (1993)

  • Haunted: Tales of the Grotesque (1994)

  • Demon and other tales (1996)

  • Will You Always Love Me? And Other Stories (1996)

  • The Collector of Hearts: New Tales of the Grotesque (1998)

  • Faithless: Tales of Transgression (2001)

  • I Am No One You Know: Stories (2004)


Drama

  • Miracle Play (1974)

  • Three Plays (1980)

  • In Darkest America (1991)

  • I Stand Before You Naked (1991)

  • Twelve Plays (1991)

  • The Perfectionist and Other Plays (1995)

  • New Plays (1998)

  • Dr. Magic: Six One Act Plays (2004)


Essays and Criticism

  • The Edge of Impossibility: Tragic Forms in Literature (1972)

  • The Hostile Sun: The Poetry of D.H. Lawrence (1974)

  • New Heaven, New Earth: The Visionary Experience in Literature (1974)

  • Contraries: Essays (1981)

  • The Profane Art: Essays & Reviews (1983)

  • On Boxing (1987)

  • (Woman) Writer: Occasions and Opportunities (1988)

  • George Bellows: American Artist (1995)

  • Where I've Been, And Where I'm Going: Essays, Reviews, and Prose (1999)

  • The Faith of A Writer: Life, Craft, Art (2003)

  • Uncensored: Views & (Re)views (2005)


Poetry

  • Anonymous Sins & Other Poems (1969)

  • Love and Its Derangements (1970)

  • Angel Fire (1973)

  • The Fabulous Beasts (1975)

  • Women Whose Lives Are Food, Men Whose Lives Are Money (1978)

  • Invisible Woman: New and Selected Poems, 1970-1982 (1982)

  • The Time Traveler (1989)

  • Tenderness (1996)


Young Adult

  • Big Mouth & Ugly Girl (2002)

  • Small Avalanches and Other Stories (2003)

  • Freaky Green Eyes (2003)

  • Sexy (2005)


Children

  • Come Meet Muffin! (1998)

  • Where Is Little Reynard? (2003)

External links



  • http://jco.usfca.edu Celestial Timepiece. Authoritative web site on Oates, from a Library reference desk|reference librarian at the University of San Francisco)

  • http://jco.usfca.edu/jco.bio.html Biography of Joyce Carol Oates

  • http://www.cosmoetica.com/TOP73-DES70.htm Essay on Oates??? I Saw A Woman Walking Into A Plate Glass Window

  • http://wiredforbooks.org/joycecaroloates/ 1990 Audio Interview of Joyce Carol Oates with Don Swaim, RealAudio


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