The Lost Landscape: A Writer's Coming of Age
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Indeed, to revise Henry James: Three things in human life are important. The first is to have sympathy; the second is to have sympathy; and the third is to have sympathy.
PHOTO SECTION
Joyce in the backyard of the Millersport house, aged three or four. (Fred Oates)
(Fred Oates)
(Fred Oates)
Joyce and Frederick Oates, 1943. (Carolina Oates)
Joyce with baby brother Robin (Fred, Jr.), 1943. (Fred Oates)
June high school graduation, 1956, age eighteen. (Fred Oates)
Easter, April 17, 1949. (Fred Oates)
Mademoiselle fiction contest co-winner, Syracuse, 1959, age twenty. (Dorothea Palmer)
Frederick Oates, 1935, age twenty-one.
Joyce’s parents, Fred and Carolina Oates, on the wing of an open cocktail airplane, Lee’s Airfield, Swormville, New York, 1940s.
Fred Oates with a Waco single-prop plane.
Fred Oates, age mid-seventies. (Ray Smith)
Carolina Oates, age mid-seventies. (Ray Smith)
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
JOYCE CAROL OATES is a recipient of the National Medal of Humanities, the National Book Critics Circle Ivan Sandrof Lifetime Achievement Award, 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; Blonde, which was nominated for the National Book Award; and the New York Times bestseller The Accursed. She is the Roger S. Berlind Distinguished Professor of the Humanities at Princeton University and has been a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters since 1978.
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NONFICTION BY JOYCE CAROL OATES
The Edge of Impossibility: Tragic Forms in Literature (1972)
New Heaven, New Earth: The Visionary Experience in Literature (1974)
Contraries (1981)
The Profane Art: Essays and 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 and (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)
CREDITS
Cover design by Allison Saltzman
Front cover photograph: Joyce Carol Oates in 1948, taken by her father, Fred Oates, and courtesy of the author.
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