Joyce Carol Oates

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Joyce Carol Oates

8 books1 series

Joyce Carol Oates is a recipient of the National Book Award and the PEN/Malamud Award for Excellence in Short Fiction. She has written some of the most enduring fiction of our time, including ‘We Were the Mulvaneys’, which was an Oprah Book Club Choice, and ‘Blonde’, which was nominated for the Nat…

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Joyce Carol Oates is a recipient of the National Book Award and the PEN/Malamud Award for Excellence in Short Fiction. She has written some of the most enduring fiction of our time, including ‘We Were the Mulvaneys’, which was an Oprah Book Club Choice, and ‘Blonde’, which was nominated for the National Book Award. She is the Roger S. Berlind Distinguished Professor of Humanities at Princeton University.

AUTHOR CAREER

Publication timeline

Published and upcoming books by publication year. Undated TBA titles are excluded.

1968–20258 cataloged publications

THE AUTHOR’S WRITING

Writing profile

Genres are based on books catalogued in Risingshadow’s English-language database. A book may belong to multiple genres.

Main classification

Fantasy1 (13%)
Science Fiction1 (13%)
Horror5 (63%)
Other1 (13%)

Each book counts once. Multiple primary genres use the shared presentation order; books without a primary genre are Other.

Genres and themes

Horror6 / 8 books
Thriller4 / 8 books
Gothic Horror2 / 8 books
Psychological Horror2 / 8 books
Psychological Thriller2 / 8 books
Fantasy1 / 8 books
Science Fiction1 / 8 books
Dystopia1 / 8 books