Lit in Translation

Joyce Carol Oates

Born 1938 · United States

In English
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Books on prize lists

  • Written in English

    Pulitzer 2015 · Finalist

    Lovely, Dark, Deep

    Lovely, Dark, Deep

    Joyce Carol Oates · 76 when first published

    Short stories

    AI-generated summary:Thirteen stories of people facing illness, age and death, from suburbanites who watch their neighbours' seemingly perfect life fall apart to a young poet who goes to meet an elderly Robert Frost.

  • Written in English

    Pulitzer 2001 · Finalist

    Blonde

    Blonde

    Joyce Carol Oates · 62 when first published

    Novel · Historical

    AI-generated summary:Norma Jeane Baker, raised by a mentally ill mother and haunted by a father she never knew, survives an orphanage and foster care and remakes herself into the film star Marilyn Monroe.