Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?: Stories of Young America
1974
The Poisoned Kiss and Other Stories from the Portuguese
1975
The Seduction and Other Stories
1975
Crossing the Border: Fifteen Tales
1976
Night-Side: Eighteen Tales
1977
All the Good People I’ve Left Behind
1979
A Sentimental Education: Stories
1980
Last Days: Stories
1984
Wild Saturday
1984
Raven’s Wing: Stories
1986
The Assignation: Stories
1988
Oates in Exile
1990
Heat and Other Stories
1991
Where Is Here?: Stories
1992
Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?: Selected Early Stories
1993
Haunted: Tales of the Grotesque
1994
Demon and Other Tales
1996
Will You Always Love Me? And Other Stories
1996
The Collector of Hearts: New Tales of the Grotesque
1998
Faithless: Tales of Transgression
2001
I Am No One You Know: Stories
2004
The Female of the Species: Tales of Mystery and Suspense
2006
High Lonesome: New & Selected Stories, 1966-2006
2006
The Museum of Dr. Moses: Tales of Mystery and Suspense
2007
Wild Nights!: Stories About the Last Days of Poe, Dickinson, Twain, James, and Hemingway
2008
Dear Husband
2009
Sourland: Stories
2010
Give Me Your Heart: Tales of Mystery and Suspense
2011
The Corn Maiden and Other Nightmares
2011
Black Dahlia & White Rose
2012
Evil Eye: Four Novellas of Love Gone Wrong
2013
High Crime Area: Tales of Darkness and Dread
2014
Lovely, Dark, Deep: Stories
2014
The Doll-Master and Other Tales of Terror
2016
DIS MEM BER and Other Stories of Mystery and Suspense
2017
Beautiful Days: Stories
2018
Night-Gaunts and Other Tales of Suspense
2018
Cardiff, by the Sea: Four Novellas of Suspense
2020
The (Other) You: Stories
2021
Night, Neon: Tales of Mystery and Suspense
2021
The Ruins of Contracoeur and Other Presences
2021
Extenuating Circumstances: Stories of Crime and Suspense
2022
Zero-Sum: Stories
2023
Flint Kill Creek: Stories of Mystery and Suspense
2024
The Frenzy: Stories
2026
Publication Order of Young Adult Books
Big Mouth & Ugly Girl
2002
Freaky Green Eyes
2003
Small Avalanches and Other Stories
2003
Sexy
2005
After the Wreck, I Picked Myself Up, Spread My Wings, and Flew Away
2006
Two or Three Things I Forgot to Tell You
2012
Publication Order of Children’s Books
Come Meet Muffin!
1998
Where Is Little Reynard?
2003
Naughty Cherie!
2008
The New Kitten
2019
Publication Order of Non-Fiction Books
The Edge of Impossibility: Tragic Forms in Literature
1972
The Hostile Sun: The Poetry of D. H. Lawrence
1973
New Heaven, New Earth: The Visionary Experience in Literature
1974
Contraries: Essays
1981
The Profane Art: Essays & Reviews
1983
On Boxing
1987
(Woman) Writer: Occasions and Opportunities
1988
George Bellows: American Artist
1995
Where I’ve Been, and Where I’m Going: Essays, Reviews, and Prose
1999
The Faith of a Writer: Life, Craft, Art
2003
Uncensored: Views & (Re)views
2005
The Journal of Joyce Carol Oates: 1973-1982
2007
In Rough Country: Essays and Reviews
2010
A Widow’s Story: A Memoir
2011
The Lost Landscape: A Writer’s Coming of Age
2015
Soul at the White Heat: Inspiration, Obsession, and the Writing Life
2016
Joyce Carol Oates: Letters to a Biographer
2024
About Joyce Carol Oates
Joyce Carol Oates (born 16 June 1938) is an American writer who has published nearly 60 novels since the 1960s, along with many volumes of short stories, novellas, plays, poetry and non-fiction. She won the National Book Award for “them” (1969), and four of her books have been finalists for the Pulitzer Prize.
Oates was born in Lockport, New York, and grew up on her parents’ farm in the farming community of Millersport. She was the first in her family to complete high school, won a scholarship to Syracuse University, where she graduated as valedictorian in 1960, and took an MA at the University of Wisconsin in 1961, the year she married Raymond J. Smith. She taught at the University of Detroit from 1962 and at the University of Windsor in Ontario from 1968, then at Princeton University from 1978 until 2014.
Vanguard Press published her first book, the story collection “By the North Gate”, in 1963, and her first novel, “With Shuddering Fall”, in 1964. The four novels of the Wonderland Quartet (1967 to 1971) were all National Book Award finalists, and the third, “them”, set in Detroit from the 1930s to the 1960s, won the prize in 1970. Her 1966 story “Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?” was filmed in 1985 as “Smooth Talk”.
In 1980 “Bellefleur” opened the Gothic Saga, a series that now runs to five novels, the latest being “The Accursed” (2013). Oates also wrote suspense novels under the pen names Rosamond Smith and Lauren Kelly. “We Were the Mulvaneys” (1996), about the disintegration of an American family, became a bestseller after Oprah’s Book Club selected it in 2001 and was made into a television film. Several of her books fictionalise real events: “Black Water” draws on the Chappaquiddick incident, “Zombie” on the crimes of Jeffrey Dahmer, and “Blonde” (2000) on the life of Marilyn Monroe.
Her honours include two O. Henry Awards, the Bram Stoker Award for “Zombie”, the Prix Femina Etranger for “The Falls”, the National Humanities Medal (2010) and the Jerusalem Prize (2019). Raymond Smith died in 2008, and her memoir “A Widow’s Story” was published in 2011.
Oates’s most recent novels are “Butcher” (2024) and “Fox” (2025). A new story collection, “The Frenzy”, was published in June 2026.
