Joyce Carol Oates's courageous and controversial novel Sexy, is a coming-of-age story about 16-year-old Darren Flynn. It unabashedly confronts issues of pedophilia, teenage sexuality, and what it means to know one's body and mind in the context of a singular-minded community. The book tackles themes of teenage sexual awakening, biology and spirituality, restraint, and the reconciliation of the mind and body.
One of the United States's most prolific and versatile contemporary writers, Joyce Carol Oates (born 1938) focuses upon the spiritual, sexual, and intellectual decline of modern American society.Oates...
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"Joyce Carol Oates is a prolific, even prolix writer, with more than fifty novels and short story collections to her name," wrote Ian Thomson in the Spectator. "Yet she writes wonderfully of life's un...
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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, sh...
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Joyce Carol Oates was born in Lockport, New York. She completed her B.A. at Syracuse University in 1960, and she was awarded an M.A. by the University of Wisconsin in 1961. On 23 January 1961 she marr...
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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...
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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 Biogra...
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Joyce Carol Oates
Joyce Carol Oates
Joyce Carol Oates