Joyce Carol Oates

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 novellas, and many volumes of short stories, poetry, and nonfiction. She has won many awards for her writing, including the National Book Award, for her novel them (1969), two O. Henry Awards, the National Humanities Medal and the Jerusalem Prize (2019). Her novels Black Water (1992), What I Lived For (1994), and Blonde (2000) and short story collections The Wheel of Love (1970) and Lovely, Dark, Deep: Stories (2014) were each finalists for the Pulitzer Prize.

“Blindfold” is a work of short fiction by Joyce Carol Oates originally published in Southern Review (Spring 1972) and first collected in The Goddess and Other Women (1974) by Vanguard Press.

"The Voyage to Rosewood" is a work of short fiction by Joyce Carol Oates originally published in Shenandoah (Spring 1967) and first collected in The Goddess and Other Women (1974) by Vanguard Press.

“The Girl” is a work of short fiction by Joyce Carol Oates originally published in Pomegranate Press (1974) and first collected in The Goddess and Other Women (1974) by Vanguard Press.

"Magna Mater" is a work of short fiction by Joyce Carol Oates originally published in Antaeus (Spring-Summer 1974) and first collected in The Goddess and Other Women (1974) by Vanguard Press.

“Where I Lived and What I Lived For” is a work of short fiction by Joyce Carol Oates originally published in Virginia Quarterly Review (Autumn 1970) and first collected in Marriages and Infidelities (1974) by Vanguard Press.

“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. McCall’s re-titled the story “The Death of Dreams” in its periodical, but its original title of “The Dead” was restored in the collection at Oates’s requested.

"The Lady with the Pet Dog" is a work of short fiction by Joyce Carol Oates originally published in The Partisan Review (Spring 1972) and first collected in Marriages and Infidelities (1972) by Vanguard Press.

“Nightmusic” is a work of short fiction by Joyce Carol Oates originally published in Mundus Artium Journal (July 1972) and first collected in Marriages and Infidelities (1972) by Vanguard Press.

“In the Warehouse” is a work of short fiction by Joyce Carol Oates originally published in The Transatlantic Review (Summer 1967) and first collected in The Goddess and Other Women (1974) by Vanguard Press.