Joyce Carol Oates
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The prolific writer, who has taught at Princeton University since 1978, is scary in more ways than one. She produces novels at the formidable rate of one or two a year, and her dark-hued works often take on subjects like rape, incest, and murder. Them (the saga of a dysfunctional lower-class Detroit family) won a National Book Award in 1970. Black Water (1993), an imagining of a Chappaquiddick-like drowning, won a Pulitzer, and Oprah’s Book Club recommended We Were the Mulvaneys, her 1996 novel about a rape’s aftermath. Not bad for a writer who has said, “I’m drawn to failure. I feel that I’m contending with it constantly in my own life.” This fall’s two new books are The Museum of Dr. Moses: Tales of Mystery and Suspense and The Journal of Joyce Carol Oates, 1973–1982.
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