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[This entry was updated by Sarah Catlin Barnhart (University of South Carolina) from the update by Nancy Barendse (Charleston Southern University) in the Concise Dictionary of American Literary Biography, volume 6, pp. 216-241, of the entries by Michael...

Joyce Carol Oates was born in the small town of Lockport, New York, on 16 June 1938 and grew up in a rural setting nearby in Erie County. Together with her brother, Frederic, and sister, Lynn Ann, she was raised as a Roman Catholic in a home free from th...

In 1990 Joyce Carol Oates won both the Elmer Holmes Bobst Lifetime Achievement Award in Fiction and the Rea Award for the Short Story, a twenty-five-thousand-dollar prize that honors living American writers "who have made significant contributions to the...

First and best of the giant insect/arachnid subgenre of horror films, Them! was directed by Gordon Douglas and released by Warner Brothers in 1954. Atomic bomb testing in the American Southwest causes ants to mutate, growing to great size. A scientist...

them by Joyce Carol Oates is the third novel in The Wonderland Quartet, first published in...

VOYAGE TO THE END OF THE ROOM By Tibor Fischer. Counterpoint. 251 pp. $23 Those young Brits and their irremediable cleverness. Here's how bad it's gotten: I'm typing with my left hand while my right is gripped in my teeth. It keeps...

Dear Dr. Gridlock: I'm a new commuter from Fairfax County to the District. Being an optimist, I don't mind the traffic too much, for it gives me time to listen to my music, as well as take a break from people. I...

You don't have to be a member of the New York Psychoanalytic Institute to figure out that when you title a memoir of your parents Them, you're performing an act of distancing. And that if you dedicate that book "To Them with love and longing,"...

Zimbabwe: The litany of the United Nations' failures would not be complete without a mention of a country now so desperate that mobs there are willing to eat animals not normally consumed by humans. Zimbabwe's official media reported Saturday that a giraffe wandered into the...