Joyce Carol Oates ( 1938 )

Joyce Carol Oates (born June 16 1938) is an American author and the Roger S. Berlind '52 Professor in the Humanities with the Program in Creative Writing at Princeton University, where she has taught since 1978.[1]

She serves as associate editor for the Ontario Review, a literary magazine, and the Ontario Review Press, a literary book publisher, both of which are edited by her husband, Raymond J. Smith.

Oates has also written under the pseudonyms "Rosamond Smith" and "Lauren Kelly."


Extraordinarily prolific, Oates has published more than 100 books in a variety of genres, among them dozens of novels. These include With

Shuddering Fall (1964); a trilogy:
A Garden of Earthly Delights (1967, rev. ed. 2003),
Expensive People (1968), and them (1969);
Wonderland (1971); Childwold (1976); Cybele (1979);
Bellefleur (1980); Solstice (1985);
Because It Is Bitter, and Because It Is My Heart (1990);
What I Lived For (1994);
My Heart Laid Bare (1998);
Blonde (2000),
a fictional work based on the life of Marilyn Monroe; and The Falls (2004).

Oates's numerous short stories are collected in such volumes as
Wheel of Love (1970),
A Sentimental Education (1981),
Heat (1991),
Will You Always Love Me? (1996),
Faithless (2001), and High Lonesome (2006).

Oates also has written thrillers under the name Rosamond Smith, plus poems, plays, children's fiction, essays, literary criticism, and a book on boxing (1988).


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