A Joyce Carol Oates Patchwork
American Academy of Arts and Letters, Richard and Hinda Rosenthal Foundation Award For that work of fiction published during the preceding twelve months, which, although not a commercial success, is […]
For that work of fiction published during the preceding twelve months, which, although not a commercial success, is a considerable literary achievement.
1968 winner: A Garden of Earthly Delights
For a play which premiered outside New York City.
1994 nomination: The Perfectionist
Jeunesse, 2010 winner: After the Wreck, I Picked Myself Up, Spread My Wings, and Flew Away
1996, winner: Zombie
Bram Stoker AwardEach year, the Horror Writer’s Association presents the Bram Stoker Awards for Superior Achievement, named in honor of Bram Stoker, author of the seminal horror work, Dracula. Any work of Horror first published in the English language may be considered for an award during the year of its publication. Lifetime Achievement Awards are occasionally presented to individuals whose entire body of work has substantially influenced Horror.
Superior Achievement in Short Fiction, 2016 nomination: “The Crawl Space”
Superior Achievement in a Fiction Collection, 2016 nomination: The Doll-Master and Other Tales of Terror
Superior Achievement in a Fiction Collection, 2012 winner: Black Dahlia and White Rose
Superior Achievement in a Fiction Collection, 2011 winner: The Corn Maiden and Other Nightmares
Superior Achievement in Short Fiction, 2003 nomination: “The Haunting”
Superior Achievement in Long Fiction, 2000 nomination: “In Shock”
Superior Achievement in a Novel, 1996 winner: Zombie
Lifetime Achievement, 1994 winner
Deauville American Film Festival
2010 winner: Blonde
Edgar Allan Poe AwardHonoring the best in mystery fiction, non-fiction and television. Presented by the Mystery Writers of America.
Best Short Story, 2017 nomination: “The Crawl Space”
Best Short Story, 2003 nomination: “Angel of Wrath”
Best Short Story, 1974 nomination: “Do With Me What You Will”
Roman Étranger, 2005 winner: The Falls
This prestigious international short story award in the memory of Frank O’Connor is the single biggest prize in the world for a collection of short stories. It is hoped the Award, for a complete collection of previously unpublished stories in a book collection, will play a significant role in establishing parity of esteem for the short story collection alongside the novel.
2013 Shortlist: Black Dahlia & White Rose
1990 Co-winner: “Tone Clusters”
2003 Long Fiction nomination: Rape: A Love Story
2001 Short Fiction nomination: “Angel of Mercy”
1998 Collection nomination: The Collector of Hearts
2011 Shortlist: Little Bird of Heaven
2009 Longlist: The Gravedigger’s Daughter
2007 Longlist: Missing Mom
2006 Longlist: The Falls
2004 Longlist: I’ll Take You There
2003 Longlist: Middle Age
2002 Longlist: Blonde
2000 Longlist: My Heart Laid Bare
1998 Longlist: We Were the Mulvaneys
1996 Longlist: Foxfire: Confessions of a Girl Gang
2017 Best Short Story: “Big Momma”
2016 Best Short Story: “Gun Accident: An Investigation”
2005 Fiction shortlist: Mother, Missing
2018 Mystery / Thriller: A Book of American Martyrs
1992 Young Adult Fiction finalist: Big Mouth & Ugly Girl
1987 Fiction finalist: You Must Remember This
1980 Fiction finalist: Bellefleur
2011, roman étranger, winner: My Sister, My Love
1959, winner: “In the Old World”
Each year, Magill’s Literary Annual critically evaluates major examples of serious literature published in the United States during the previous calendar year. The philosophy behind our selection process is to cover works that are likely to be of interest to general readers, that are written by authors being taught in literature programs, and that will stand the test of time.
2018: A Book of American Martyrs
2017: The Doll-Master and Other Tales of Terror
2017: Soul at the White Heat: Inspiration, Obsession, and the Writing Life
2015: Lovely, Dark, Deep
2014: Evil Eye
2012: A Widow’s Story
2009: My Sister, My Love
2008: The Gravedigger’s Daughter
2008: The Museum of Dr. Moses: Tales of Mystery and Suspense
2005: The Falls
2004: The Tattooed Girl
2004: The Faith of A Writer
2002: Faithless: Tales of Transgression
2001: Blonde
2000: Broke Heart Blues
1999: My Heart Laid Bare
1995: What I Lived For
1994: Foxfire: Confessions of a Girl Gang
1993: Black Water
1992: Heat and Other Stories
1991: Because It Is Bitter, And Because It Is My Heart
1990: American Appetites
1988: You Must Remember This
1985: Mysteries of Winterthurn
1985: Last Days: Stories
1984: The Profane Art: Essays and Reviews
1983: A Bloodsmoor Romance
1982: Angel of Light
1981: Bellefleur
1979: Son of the Morning
1985: Night-Side: Eighteen Tales
1977: Childwold
1976: The Assassins: A Book of Hours
1975: The Goddess and Other Women
1974: Do With Me What You Will
1973: Marriages and Infidelities
1972: Wonderland
1971: The Wheel of Love and Other Stories
1971: Love and Its Derangements: Poems
1970: them
1970: Anonymous Sins and Other Poems
1969: Expensive People
1968: A Garden of Earthly Delights
1967: Upon the Sweeping Flood and Other Stories
1965: With Shuddering Fall
1964: By the North Gate
2017 finalist: Best Short Story: “The Crawl Space”
2008 finalist: Sue Feder Memorial, Best Historical Mystery: The Gravedigger’s Daughter
National Book AwardRecognizes the most distinguished books of fiction, non-fiction, and poetry of the previous year.
2001 finalist: Blonde
1990 finalist: Because It Is Bitter, And Because It Is My Heart
1971 finalist: Wonderland
1970 winner: them
(JCO’s Acceptance Speech)
1969 finalist: Expensive People
1968 finalist: A Garden of Earthly Delights
2007 fiction finalist: The Gravedigger’s Daughter
2007 autobiography finalist: The Journal of Joyce Carol Oates: 1973-1982
1992 fiction finalist: Black Water
2007 nominee: Fiction, Playboy (May 2006), “Suicide Watch”
2006 winner: Fiction, The Virginia Quarterly Review (Fall), “Smother”
2006 finalist: Fiction, The Virginia Quarterly Review (Winter), “So Help Me God”
2006 finalist: Fiction, Zoetrope: All-Story, “High Lonesome”
2003 finalist: Fiction, The Georgia Review, “Three Girls”
2002 finalist: Fiction, Harper’s Magazine, “Curly Red”
1993 finalist: Fiction, Playboy, “The Premonition”
1985 finalist: Fiction, Esquire, “Raven’s Wing”
1983 finalist: Fiction, Esquire, “Ich Bin Ein Berliner”
1978 finalist: Fiction, Mademoiselle, “The Tattoo”
2013: The Accursed
2010: Sourland
2006: High Lonesome
2005: Missing Mom
2004: The Falls
2002: I’ll Take You There
2001: Faithless: Tales of Transgression
2000: Blonde
1998: My Heart Laid Bare
1997: Man Crazy
1996: We Were The Mulvaneys
1995: Zombie
1994: What I Lived For
1993: Foxfire: Confessions of a Girl Gang
1992: Black Water
1991: Heat; and The Rise of Life on Earth
1990: Because It Is Bitter And Because It Is My Heart
1989: American Appetites
1988: The Assignation
1987: On Boxing; and You Must Remember This
1986: Raven’s Wing
1985: Solstice
1984: Last Days; and Mysteries of Winterthurn
1982: A Bloodsmoor Romance
1981: Angel of Light
1980: Bellefleur
1978: Son of the Morning
1977: Night Side
1976: Childwold
1975: The Poisoned Kiss; and The Seduction
1974: The Goddess and Other Women
1973: Do With Me What You Will
1972: Marriages and Infidelities
1970: The Wheel of Love
1969: them
1968: Expensive People
1963: By the North Gate
2001 selection: We Were the Mulvaneys
2006 longlist: Rape: A Love Story
2005 longlist: The Falls
2002 longlist: Middle Age
The PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay aims to preserve the dignity and esteem that the essay form imparts to literature. The winner receives a $10,000 prize and will be honored at the PEN America Literary Awards Ceremony.
2017 longlist: Soul at the White Heat
1995 finalist: What I Lived For
1971, short story: “Saul Bird Says: Relate! Communicate! Liberate!”
For distinguished fiction published in book form during the year by an American author, preferably dealing with American life.
2015 finalist: Lovely, Dark, Deep: Stories
“A rich collection of stories told from many rungs of the social ladder and distinguished by their intelligence, language and technique.”
2001 finalist: Blonde
“‘Blonde’ is audacious, excessive, unstintingly serious and even severe in what its intellectual and narrative curiosity force upon the reader. Risking self-defeat, this ‘radically distilled’ life of Marilyn Monroe seeks to deliver a grander vision of what is right and wrong in human conduct and motive. In its variety of fictive effects and narrative voices, its muscularity (a willingness to forego finesse and delicacy when large strokes and brazenness are called for), ‘Blonde’ renders history all but irrelevant in the face of the novel’s outlandish authority. Marilyn Monroe, the actress, is simply (though not merely) the impetus for ‘Blonde.’ And if Oates’s novel eventually sheds light on Monroe’s life, it does so not as a subtext to history, but because of its warrant as a galvanizing act of imagination. ‘Blonde’ deepens our sympathies for ourselves (at a cost), it sharpens our distaste for venality, it broadens our view of what’s relevant to moral judgement, and it snares us with our own indecencies.” —Pulitzer Prize Jury
1995 finalist: What I Lived For
“Epic in its sweeping portrayal of the landscape of modern American culture, yet surgically precise in evoking the soul of her male protagonist, “Corky” Corcoran, Joyce Carol Oates’ 24th novel, What I Lived For, is a late 20th century masterpiece—a sprawling, encyclopedic and deeply moving story of business, politics, sex, science, and morality in the ’90s. With this ambitious novel Oates demonstrates, more powerfully than ever before, that even if our libraries ceased to exist future historians would be able to reconstruct the minutiae and meaning of our life and times from her expansive body of work.” —Pulitzer Prize Jury
1993 finalist: Black Water
“In ‘Black Water,’ Joyce Carol Oates accomplishes the difficult task of turning a recent tragedy in American history—one clouded by mystery—into drama that suggests the passions, fears, and moment-by-moment decisions that produced it. Clearly, this is her boldest novel, not because her characters will be compared to Senator Kennedy and Mary Jo Kopechne, but rather because she has given a compelling voice to the woman who is the victim in her story, and by doing so enriches—and puts a human face on—someone marginalized in our cultural imagination. Elegantly written and haunting, ‘Black Water’ is that rarest of novels: a fiction that goes beneath the historical record and newspaper headlines to unearth the truth of the human heart.” —Pulitzer Prize Jury
1971 finalist: The Wheel of Love
“Last year’s National Book Award winner ( THEM ) plumbs ‘ordinariness’ to deep roots, feels connections that have emotional value for the here-and-now by means of the sort of sensibility which only the finest writers possess.” —Pulitzer Prize Jury
1970 finalist (and unanimous jury recommendation): them
“Equally assured [as Jean Stafford] but more venturesome in scope and sweep is Joyce Carol Oates, a young writer whose novel ‘Them,’ pleased us all. The latest in a series of distinctively American stories, it follows the fortunes of a blue-collar Midwestern family from the Depression to the Detroit riots, using a variety of styles which oscillate between naturalism and nightmare. As one juror pointed out, it possesses the attributes we as a people prize highly — vigor, vitality, drive. Where so many of the younger novelists feel their way and falter, Miss Oates plows ahead, affirming where others merely muse. She is aware that society is racked by problems and faces them boldly. In the words of one juror, ‘Them’ is a combination of American dream and American nightmare. ‘Miss Oates has Dreiser’s understanding of our society and much of his strength but she writes better.'”
“For its insights, its characterization, its sense of time and place, and its vivid picture of that segment of American society which lives between violence and despair, ‘Them’ seems to us the best novel of 1969.”
“We therefore recommend that the 1970 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction be awarded to Joyce Carol Oates for ‘Them,’ with Jean Stafford’s ‘Collected Stories’ as first runner-up and John Cheever’s ‘Bullet Park’ as second runner-up.” —Pulitzer Prize Jury
1956 winner: “A Dawn You’ll Never See”
Shirley Jackson Awards2013 Novel finalist: The Accursed
2011 Single-Author Collection finalist: The Corn Maiden and Other Nightmares
2010 Board of Directors Special Award: Shirley Jackson: Novels and Stories
2008 Collection Finalist: Wild Nights!
2011 Short Story winner: “Fossil-Figures”
1995 Collection finalist: Haunted: Tales of the Grotesque
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