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About Joyce Carol Oates "What keeps us coming back to Oates Country" says The New York Times Book Review, "is her uncanny gift of making the page a window, with something happening on the other side that we'd swear was life itself." * A novelist and poet, she is an award-winning short story writer anthologized as frequently as any writer living today. She has written screenplays, the libretto to an opera of her novel "Black Water," innumerable critical pieces and articles and, now, with the publication of "Man Crazy" (Dutton/A William Abrahams Book; $23.95), 27 novels. Rich with profound emotional resonances and a fresh emphasis on reconciliation and hope, "Man Crazy" delivers a devastatingly brilliant portrait of a persecuted, desperate and lonely young woman. Dutton's William Abrahams Books has most recently published Oates' "We Were the Mulvaneys," a 1996 New York Times Book Review "Notable Book of the Year," which met tremendous success. "A grand symphonic novel ... one of Oates' finest efforts" (San Francisco Chronicle). "New testimony to Oates' great intelligence and dead-on imaginative powers. It is a book that will break your heart, heal it, then break it again every time you think about it" (Los Angeles Times Book Review). "We Were the Mulvaneys" will be published as a Plume/William Abrahams trade paperback on September 8, 1997. Other classic novels by Oates include "Will You Always Love Me?" (1996), a collection of 22 astonishing short stories that explore the extreme emotional currents that run just below the surface of everyday life, "What I Lived For" (1994), a novel hailed by James Carroll in The New York Times Book Review as "an American inferno" and nominated for the Pulitzer Prize and the 1995 PEN/Faulkner Award For Fiction, and "Zombie" (1995), an unflinching and unforgettable exploration of the twisted mind of a serial killer. Joyce Carol Oates received a National Book Award in 1970 for her novel "Them." "Because It Is Bitter, Because It Is My Heart" was nominated for a National Book Award in 1990 and "Black Water" was a finalist for the 1992 National Book Critics Circle Award. "Zombie" was awarded the 1995 Lilla Fisk Rand fiction prize by the Boston Book Review. In 1990, Oates was awarded the Rea Award for the Short Story, given to honor a living U.S. writer who has made a significant contribution to the short story as an art form. 1996 brought her the PEN/Malamud Award for a lifetime of achievement in the short story form, joining her with such previous winners as William Maxwell, Grace Paley and Peter Taylor. She has received awards from the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Institute of Arts and Letters and the Lotus Club and is a member of the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters. For many years her short stories have been included in the annual Best American Short Stories and the O. Henry Prize stories collections, and she has twice been the recipient of the O. Henry Special Award for Continuing Achievement. Born in Lockport, N.Y., she was educated at Syracuse University and the University of Wisconsin. Joyce Carol Oates is married and lives in Princeton, N.J., where she is the Roger S. Berlind Distinguished Professor in the Humanities at Princeton University. *The New York Times Book Review of "We Were the Mulvaneys" (9/15/96). | |
