Joyce Carol Oates

Reflecting on Joyce Carol Oates: Fellow alumna and friend, by Joanne Vanish Creighton, On Wisconsin, Summer 2009, with An excerpt from Joyce Carol Oates’s Nighthawk: A Memoir of Lost Time


Oates' characters are masterfully rendered but she is particularly gifted at creating a certain type: The appallingly egocentric, sometimes to the point of (usually) unwitting hostility. --Dan Scheraga, Joyce Carol Oates proves her mastery again in story collection, The Associated Press, review of Dear Husband, by Joyce Carol Oates (via JSOnline)


On this author:

Featured Author: Joyce Carol Oates, With Reviews and Articles From the Archives of The New York Times

Joyce Carol Oates, New York State Writers Institute

Interview, Lit Chat, Salon


On other works by this author:

The Wand of the Enchanter by Michael Dirda, review of The Journal of Joyce Carol Oates, 1973–1982 edited by Greg Johnson, The Gravedigger's Daughter by Joyce Carol Oates, The Museum of Dr. Moses: Tales of Mystery and Suspense by Joyce Carol Oates, and Joyce Carol Oates: Conversations, 1970–2006 edited by Greg Johnson, New York Review of Books, December 20, 2007

Force of Nature, review by Terrence Rafferty of The Falls by Joyce Carol Oates, The New York Times, September 19, 2004


Other works online:

The Art of Vengeance by Joyce Carol Oates, review of Collected Stories by Roald Dahl, The New York Review of Books, April 26, 2007

Brilliance, Silence, Courage by Joyce Carol Oates, review of Twenty-eight Artists and Two Saints: Essays by Joan Acocella, The New York Review of Books, March 15, 2007

See Pathography