Joyce Carol Oates, 1992Novelist and short-story writer Joyce Carol Oates experimented with urban naturalism, Surrealism, and Gothic fantasy in her works exploring violence and evil in modern American society.
Joyce Carol Oates, (born June 16, 1938, Lockport, N.Y., U.S.), U.S. writer. Oates taught at the University of Windsor (1967β78) and Princeton University (from 1978). Beginning with the story collection By the North Gate (1963) and the novel With Shuddering Fall (1964), she wrote prolifically, often portraying people whose intensely experienced lives end in bloodshed and self-destruction owing to forces beyond their control. Her major novels include them (1969), Do with Me What You Will (1973), Foxfire (1993), and Beasts (2002). Also significant is a parodic gothic series including Bellefleur (1980), A Bloodsmoor Romance (1982), and Mysteries of Winterthurn (1984).