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Joyce Carol Oates

Joyce Carol Oates (1938- ) is a 20th century American novelist known for being nearly as outrageously prolific as contemporary novelist Stephen King.

She teaches in the English department at Princeton University, where she is said to have a long-standing rivalry with another Princeton professor, Nobel Prize winner Toni Morrison.

Oates has written several books under the pseudonym of Rosamond Smith.

Table of contents

1 Major Themes 2 Works by Joyce Carol Oates 2.1 Novels 2.2 Poetry Collections 2.3 Short Stories 2.4 Essays and Criticism

Major Themes

Works by Joyce Carol Oates

Novels

• A Garden of Earthly Delights (1967)
• Expensive People (1968)
• them (1969)
• With Shuddering Fall (1964)
• ''Wonderland (1971)
• ''Do with Me What You Will (1973)
• ''Miracle Play (1974)
• ''The Assassins: A Book of Hours (1975)
• ''The Childwold (1976)
• The Triumph of the Spider Monkey (1976)
• Son of the Morning (1978)
• Cybele (1979)
• Unholy Loves (1979)
• Bellefleur (1980)
• Angel of Light (1981)
• A Bloodsmoor Romance (1982)
• Luxury of Sin (1983)
• Mysteries of Winterthurn (1984)
• Solstice (1984)
• Marya: A Life (1986)
• Raven's Wing (1986)
• You Must Remember This (1987)
• American Appetites (1989)
• Because It Is Bitter, and Because It Is My Heart (1990)
• I Lock My Door Upon Myself (1990)
• Black Water (1992)
• Foxfire: Confessions of a Girl Gang (1993)
• What I Lived For (1994)
• Zombie (1995)
• First Love (1996)
• We Were the Mulvaneys (1996)
• Man Crazy (1997)
• Come Meet Muffin! (1998)
• My Heart Laid Bare (1998)
• Broke Heart Blues (1999)
• Starr Bright Will Be With You Soon (1999)
• Blonde (2000)
• The Barrens (2001)
• Beasts (2001)
• Middle-Age: A Romance (2001)
• Big Mouth and Ugly Girl (2002)
• I'll Take You There (2002)
• Freaky Green Eyes (2003)
• Rape: A Love Story (2003)
• The Tattooed Girl (2003)
• The Falls (2004)

Poetry Collections

Short Stories

• The Secret Mirror (1975)
• Fatal Woman (1977)
• Further Confessions (1977)
• The Murder (1977)
• Night-Side (1977)
• Bellefleur (excerpt) (1980)
• The Bingo Master (1980)
• The Doll (1980)
• The Virgin in the Rose-Bower (1984)
• Desire (1987)
• Haunted (1987)
• The Others (1987)
• The White Cat (1987)
• Blue-Bearded Lover (1988)
• Secret Observations on the Goat Girl (1988)
• White Trash (1988)
• Did You Ever Slip on Red Blood? (1989)
• Family (1989)
• Pregnant (1989)
• Ladies and Gentlemen (1990)
• Why Don't You Come Live With Me It's Time [from Tikkun] (1990)
• The Guilty Party (1991)
• Accursed Inhabitants of the House of Bly (1992)
• Don't You Trust Me? (1992)
• Extenuating Circumstances (1992)
• Letter, Lover (1992)
• Martyrdom (1992)
• The Model (1992)
• Poor Bibi (1992)
• The Premonition (1992)
• Phase Change (1993)
• The Radio Astronomer (1993)
• Thanksgiving (1993)
• Blind (1994)
• Brothers (1994)
• Elvis Is Dead: Why Are You Alive? (1994)
• ############## (1995)
• The Crossing (1995)
• The Hand-Puppet (1995)
• The Dream-Catcher (1996)
• Leave Me Alone God Damn You (1996)
• Nobody Knows My Name (1996)
• The Temple (1996)
• In the Insomniac Night (1997)
• The Sky-Blue Ball (1997)
• Starr Bright Will Be with You Soon! (1997)
• Broke Heart Blues (1998)
• Color Blind (1998)
• The Ruins of Contracoeur (1999)
• In Shock (2000)
• You, Little Match-girl (2000)
• The Abduction
• Accident
• Ace
• Adultress
• Anecdote
• The Assignation
• August Evening
• Bad Habits
• The Boy
• The Bystander
• Eleutheria
• Face
• Fin de Siecle
• Heartland
• Holiday
• In Traction
• Maximum Security
• Mule
• One Flesh
• Only Son
• Party
• Photographer's Model
• Picnic
• Pinch
• The Quarrel
• Romance
• Secret
• Senorita
• A Sentimental Encounter
• Sharpshooting
• Shelter
• Slow
• The Stadium
• Stroke
• Superstitious
• Tick
• A Touch of the Flu
• Train
• Two Doors
• Visitation Rights

Essays and Criticism

• Contraries: Essays
• The Edge of Impossibility
• First Person Singular
• New Heaven, New Earth
• On Boxing
• Woman Writer

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