In 1975, graduate student Greg Johnson wrote to Joyce Carol Oates, beginning a correspondence that would lead to friendship and to his writing of her biography. Her letters explain why she has been so ...

Writer and X (formerly Twitter) provocateur Joyce Carol Oates will be the keynote speaker at this year’s Decatur Book Festival (DBF), set for Oct. 4-5, organizers announced last week. Oates, 85, is ...

This generic documentary, subtitled “A Body in the Service of Mind,” is so fixated on canonizing its subject that it skirts around what makes her so intriguing: her peculiar and provocative ideas. By ...

National Book Award Winner, five-time Pulitzer Prize finalist, and creative writing professor Joyce Carol Oates made a guest appearance during my freshman seminar, FRS105: American Identity at a ...

Joyce Carol Oates is calling out Steven Spielberg in an influencer feud we did not have on our 2023 bingo card. Amid the awards season circuit where the adaptation of Oates’ fictionalized portrait of ...

“Blonde” explores the life (and death) of Marilyn Monroe behind the iconography of the late bombshell. While at the 21st Neuchâtel Intl. Fantastic Film Festival in Switzerland, Oates confirmed that ...

You never want to get too attached to Joyce Carol Oates' characters. Terrible ends tend to await them — particularly for the younger characters, the greener ones, the ones you are rooting for. There's ...

Though she used to be a professor at the University of Detroit Mercy, author Joyce Carol Oates might possibly reconsider taking zoology class. The tweet went viral, which is how it landed in front of ...

Joyce Carol Oates is an American author, poet and playwright. She published her first book in 1963 and has since published 58 novels, as well as a number of plays and novellas, and many volumes of ...