Joyce Carol Oates is a recipient of the National Medal ... as well as the national bestsellers "We Were The Mulvaneys," "Blonde," "The Falls," "The Gravedigger’s Daughter" and "The Accursed." ...

“I have,” Joyce Carol Oates says, “so many ideas.” That’s putting it mildly. It’s hard to think of another writer with as fecund and protean an imagination as the 85-year-old, who is ...

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.

“Joyce Carol Oates: Letters to a Biographer” is an unconventional work due to its epistolary nature. Rather than writing about Oates’s life himself, editor Greg Johnson — her longtime ...

Joyce Carol Oates is not only a great American author but also one of the nation’s most prolific and enigmatic posters. Her Twitter account is a chaotic place where the writer’s unbound energy ...

When Joyce Carol Oates was thirty-four ... He has a bushy white beard and straight hair that falls to the bottom of his neck. “You probably paid for the first meal,” she says, starting ...