Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been? Summary
Joyce Carol Oates

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Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been? Summary

Joyce Carol Oates was inspired to write "Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?" after reading an account in Life magazine of a charismatic but insecure young man who had enticed and then killed several girls in Tucson, Arizona, during the early 1960s. Transformed into fiction, this story was first published by the literary Journal Epoch in 1966 and was included in Oates's 1970 short story collection The Wheel of Love. Critical acclaim was...

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