Joyce Carol Oates

Joyce Carol Oates (born June 16, 1938 in Lockport, New York) is an American writer of novels, stories, plays, poetry, and non-fiction, known for being one of the most prolific of authors of literary merit.

Novels

• 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: A Book of Hours (1975)
• The Childwold (1976)
• Son of the Morning (1978)
• Cybele (1979)
• Unholy Loves (1979)
• Bellefleur (1980)
• Angel of Light (1981)
• A Bloodsmoor Romance (1982)
• Mysteries of Winterthurn (1984)
• Solstice (1984)
• Marya: A Life (1986)
• You Must Remember This (1987)
• American Appetites (1989)
• Because It Is Bitter, and Because It Is My Heart (1990)
• Black Water (1992, also adapted for a late-90s stage play performed in Philadelphia)
• Foxfire: Confessions of a Girl Gang (1993; the basis for the 1996 film Foxfire)
• What I Lived For (1994)
• Zombie (1995)
• We Were the Mulvaneys (1996)
• Man Crazy (1997)
• My Heart Laid Bare (1998)
• Broke Heart Blues (1999)
• Blonde (2000)
• Middle-Age: A Romance (2001)
• Big Mouth and Ugly Girl (2002)
• I'll Take You There (2002)
• Freaky Green Eyes (2003)
• The Tattooed Girl (2003)
• Rape: A Love Story (2003)
• The Falls (2004)
• Missing Mom (2005)