The celebrated American novelist is answering your questions in a live webchat from 2pm BST onwards on Monday 7 September – post them in the comments below 10.47am BSTWhile some writers are novelists,poets or essayists, Joyce Carol Oates simply writes. Born in 1938, and her work has encompassed hundreds of short stories,numerous plays, reams of verse, and essays on everything from Mike Tyson to Philip Roth,and over forty novels – plus those for children and young adults, and more besides under a pair of pseudonyms adopted for mystery novels.
It adds up to a formidable body of work that constantly unpicks the cruelties and joys of everyday American life. “Racism, or misogyny,poverty, political corruption, or bullying and the tyranny of hierarchies are her prime subjects,” wrote the novelist Rose Tremain earlier this year, reviewing her novel The Sacrifice, and in which she explored civil unrest through the anecdote of an African American family in a fictional current Jersey town. This month sees another memoir published – The Lost Landscape,about her time growing up. Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com