The Oxford Companion to English Literature | Oates, Joyce Carol
Oates, Joyce
Carol
(
1938
–
), American novelist, short story writer, poet, and critic, born in Lockport, New York, educated at Syracuse University and the University of Wisconsin. A former professor of English at the University of Detroit (a city which provides the setting for much of her work), she is a prolific novelist whose fiction portrays intense individual experiences as expressions of the dark and violent heart of American society. Her novels—predominantly naturalistic but with suggestions of the
neo-Gothic
—include With Shuddering Fall (
1964
), A Garden of Earthly Delights (
1967
), Expensive People (
1968
), them (
1969
), Wonderland (
1971
), Do With Me What You Will (
1973
), The Assassins (
1975
), The Childwold (
1976
), The Triumph of the Spider Monkey (
1977
), Son of the Morning (
1978
), Bellefleur (
1980
), A Bloodsmoor...
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