Writers: Joyce Carol Oates

An online guide to the life and work of Joyce Carol Oates

When people say there is too much violence in [my books], what they are saying is there is too much reality in life..

Joyce Carol Oates

Literature

Joyce Carol Oates, Sourland
Joyce Carol Oates, Give Me Your Heart
Joyce Carol Oates, The Accursed
Joyce Carol Oates, Black Dahlia & White Rose
Joyce Carol Oates on Blonde and Marilyn Monroe
Joyce Carol Oates on Trauma and Adolescence
Ten Rules for Writing Fiction
10 Most Powerful Women Authors
The Inevitable: Contemporary Writers Confront Death

Music

Joyce Carol Oates on Bob Dylan

Others on Oates

Philip Roth's Reading Habits

Philosophy

Joyce Carol Oates on reading Nietzsche

Photography

Joyce Carol Oates and Jane Yarborough Creech

Biography

Daily Routines of Writers and Philosophers
Joyce Carol Oates and Meghan O'Rourke on Grief
Joyce Carol Oates, In Rough Country
Joyce Carol Oates, 'A Widow's Memoir'
Joyce Carol Oates shares her influences
The Journal of Joyce Carol Oates: 1973-1982
Roth and Oates receive 2010 National Humanities Medals
Writers Interviewed in The Paris Review

Miscellaneous

Writers' Autographs