Joyce Carol Oates (born June 16, 1938) is an American author and the Roger S. Berlind '52 Professor in the Humanities with the Program in Creative Writing at Princeton University ...
Joyce Carol Oates has often expressed an intense nostalgia for the time and place of her childhood, and her working-class upbringing is lovingly recalled in much of her fiction.
Beasts is a 138 pages novella narrated by Gillian Bauer, a middle-age woman who recalls her love for her former creative writing teacher, an obsession that took place when she was ...