Where are You Going, where Have You Been?: Selected Early Stories

Joyce Carol Oates

Ontario Review Press, 1993 - Fiction - 522 pages

The sixties and seventies witnessed the emergence of Joyce Carol Oates as one of America's foremost writers of the short story. In 1962, 'The Fine White Mist of Winter, ' composed when the author was 19 years old, appeared in The Literary Review and was selected for both the O. Henry Awards and Best American Short Stories of that year.

Contents

• UPON THE SWEEPING FLOOD 1966: 31
• THE WHEEL OF LOVE 1970: 99
• Contemplated the World from the Detroit House: 179

About the author

Joyce Carol Oates was born on June 16, 1938 in Lockport, New York. She received a bachelor's degree in English from Syracuse University and a master's degree in English from the University of Wisconsin. She is the author of numerous novels and collections of short stories. Her works include We Were the Mulvaneys, Blonde, Bellefleur, You Must Remember This, Because It Is Bitter, Because It Is My Heart, Solstice, Marya : A Life, and Give Me Your Heart. She has received numerous awards including the National Book Award for Them, the PEN/Malamud Award for Excellence in Short Fiction, and the F. Scott Fitzgerald Award for Lifetime Achievement in American Literature. She was a finalist for the 2015 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction with her title Lovely, Dark, Deep. She also wrote a series of suspense novels under the pseudonym Rosamond Smith. In 2015, her novel The Accursed became listed as a bestseller on the iBooks chart. She worked as a professor of English at the University of Windsor, before becoming the Roger S. Berlind Distinguished Professor of Humanities at Princeton University. She and her late husband Raymond J. Smith operated a small press and published a literary magazine, The Ontario Review.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Where are You Going, where Have You Been?: Selected Early Stories; Desert Mountain High School collection
• Author: Joyce Carol Oates
• Contributor: Joyce Carol Oates
• Edition: reprint
• Publisher: Ontario Review Press, 1993
• Original from: Pennsylvania State University
• Digitized: Jun 30, 2009
• ISBN: 0865380783, 9780865380783
• Length: 522 pages
• Subjects: Fiction / General; Fiction / Literary; Fiction / Psychological; Fiction / Short Stories (single author); Literary Criticism / General