Joyce carol oates

In an era that fetishizes form, Oates has become America’s preëminent fiction writer by doing everything you’re not supposed to do, Leo Robson writes.

"I come from people who did not go to college. They didn't even finish high school. People who one might call ordinary Americans who are very hardworking." Growing up on a farm in the rundown North Country of Upstate New York seems an unlikely preparation for a literary career, but today, Joyce Carol Oates is one of America's most prolific and respected authors. She has distinguished herself in the academic world as teacher and critic, while earning a fortune as the author of bestselling…

Words of inspiration by American author and poet Joyce Carol Oates

Too readily classified, or dismissed, as a Southern Gothicist, Carson McCullers (1917–1967) is one of the most radical writers of the American

A list of American writer Joyce Carol Oates' favorite books, including work by Anthony Marra, Atticus Lish and Whitney Terrell.

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On the eve of her 72nd novel, the iconic American writer fields questions on everything from the #MeToo movement to getting lost in the woods.