oates, joyce carol

A chronicle of the author's hardscrabble childhood in rural western New York State describes the family members, first friendships, and early experiences with death that shaped her literary career.

Oates talks about her works, her purposes, her concepts of literature, and her writing methods.

Critical study focusing on the middle period of Oates's career.

A collection of critical essays on this well-known American writer and her works.

Presents Joyce Carol Oates's 1966 short story inspired by a magazine article about a teenage killer in Arizona, followed by critical essays and reviews written in response to the story and its film adaptation.

Contains essays in which author Joyce Carol Oates discusses various aspects of the art and craft of writing and shares her personal experiences as a novelist, poet, and essayist.

A biography of twentieth-century American writer Joyce Carol Oates, drawing from personal letters and journals, as well as interviews with Oates, her family, friends, and colleagues to discuss the paradoxical relationship between her private life and public career, and examining the biographical issues that influence her writing.