Life and Biography
Books and articles about the life of Joyce Carol Oates.
A Letter to My Mother, Carolina Oates, on Her 78th Birthday
The old farmhouse was razed years ago, the very site of its foundation filled with earth, all trace of its existence obliterated. Yet I see it clearly, and the lilac tree that grew close beside the back door, a child-size tree into which I climbed, a dreamy child given to solitude in places near the house, near you.
My Father, My Fiction
Though frequently denounced and often misunderstood by a somewhat genteel literary community, my writing is, at least in part, an attempt to memorialize my parents’ vanished world; my parents’ lives. Sometimes directly, sometimes in metaphor.
Invisible Writer: A Biography of Joyce Carol Oates
For more than three decades, Joyce Carol Oates has been hailed as one of the most significant and enduring writers of the twentieth century. Brilliantly inventive and astonishingly prolific, she […]
A Brief Biography of Joyce Carol Oates
By Greg Johnson Originally published in A Reader’s Guide to the Recent Novels of Joyce Carol Oates Copyright © 1996 by Greg Johnson Joyce Carol Oates has often expressed an […]
Celestial Timepiece 