Female : Novelist & Children's Writer

Nationality : American Place of Birth : Lockport, New York

Date of Birth : 1938

Pseudonyms : Rosamond Smith

Other Work : Professor of Humanties at Princeton University

Education : Syracuse University & Univ of Wisconsin

1963-1970
By the North Gate (1963 Vanguard Press, NY) - ss. 1st book
Anonymous Sins - Poems
Love and Its Derangements - Poems
With Shuddering Fall (1964 Vanguard) (1965 Cape)
Upon the Sweeping Flood & Other Stories (1966 Vanguard) (1973 G)
A Garden of Earthly Delights (1967 Vanguard) (1970 Gollancz)
Women in Love & Other Poems (1968 Albondocani Press) - 150 numbered and signed
Expensive People (1968 Vanguard Press, NY) (1969 Gollancz)
Anonymous Sins & Other Poems (1969 Louisiana State UP)
Them (1969 Vanguard, NY) (1971 Gollancz) (1979 Franklin Library)
The Wheel of Love & Other Stories (1970 Vanguard, NY) (1971 Gollancz)
Woman is the Death of the Soul (1970 Orange Bear Reader, Canada) - 500 copies. Broadside
Love and Its Derangements (1970 Louisiana State UP)
Cupid and Psyche : A Short Story (1970 Albondocani Press) - 200 numbered and signed

1971-1973
Wonderland (1971 Vanguard $7.95) (1972 Gollancz)
Wooded Frames (1972 Albondocani Press) - 300
The Edge of Impossibility : Tragic Forms in Literature (1972 Vanguard) (1976 Gollancz)
In Case of Accidental Death (1972 Pomegranate Press) - 150 numbered. Broadside
Marriages and Infidelities (1972 Vanguard) (1974 Gollancz) - ss
Dreaming America & Other Poems (1973 Aloe) - 150 numbered and signed
The Hostile Sun : The Poetry of D H Lawrence (1973 Black Sparrow) - 300 signed and numbered
A Posthumous Sketch (1973 Black Sparrow Press) - pamphlet. 65 copies
Angel Fire : poems (1973 Louisiana State Univ Press)
Do With Me What You Will (1973 Vanguard, NY) (1974 G)
Scenes from American Life (1973 Random House)

1974-1975
Love and its Derangements & other Poems (1974 Fawcett Pb)
Miracle Play (1974 Black Sparrow Press) - 1291 copies
New Heaven, New Earth : The Visionary Experience in Literature (1974 Vanguard) (1976 Gollancz)
Sparrow 19 - Plagiarized Material by Fernandes 'translated by J C Oates
(1974 Black Sparrow Press) - 100
The Hungry Ghosts : Seven Allusive Comedies (1974 Black Sparrow) - 50 signed & numbered
The Girl (1974 Pomegranate Press) - 250 signed
The Goddess and Other Women (1974 Vanguard) (1975 Gollancz)
Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been ? (1974 Fawcett pb)
The Assassins : A Book of Hours (1975 Vanguard Press)
The Fabulous Beasts (1975 Louisiana State UP)
The Seduction & Other Stories (1975 Black Sparrow) - 1560 copies of which 350 signed
The Poisoned Kiss & Other Stories from the Portuguese (1975 Vanguard) (1976 Gollancz)

1976-1977
Crossing the Border : Fifteen Tales (1976 Vanguard) (1978 Gollancz)
New Heaven, New Earth (1976 G)
Fertilizing the Continent (1976 Santa Susana Press) - 12 signed
Public Outcry (1976 Slow Loris Press) - 65 numbered & Signed. Broadside
Rumpled Bed (1976 Rook Society) - 100 numbered & signed. Broadside
The Blessing (1976 Black Sparrow Press) - pamphlet. 146 copies
The Edge of Impossibility (1976 G)
The Triumph of the Spider Monkey (1976 Black Sparrow) - 1000 + 350 signed
Childwold (1976 Vanguard NY) (1977 Gollancz)
Abandoned Airfield (1977 Lord John Press) - 200 Numbered
Season of Peril (1977 Black Sparrow Press) - 200 numbered and signed
Snowfall (1977 G K Hall) - single card sheet
Daisy (1977 Black Sparrow) - 170 numbered & Signed
Night-side : Eighteen Tales (1977 Vanguard) (1979 Gollancz)

1978-1980
Women Whose Lives are Food, Men Whose Lives are Money (poems)
(1978 Louisiana State Univ Press)
Son of the Morning (1978 Vanguard) (1979 Gollancz)
The Step Father (1978 Lord John Press) - 300 numbered and signed
Cupid & Psyche (1978 Albondocani, NY) - 226 signed
The Step Father (1978 Lord John Press) - 300 signed
A Sentimental Education (1978 Sylvester & Orphanos, LA - 330 signed) (1980 Dutton)
(1987 Cape £6.50)
Queen of the Night (1979 Lord John Press) - 300 numbered and signed
Cybele (1979 Black Sparrow) - 1000 + 300 signed
The Lamb of Abyssinia (1979 Np. Pomegranate Press) - 50 de luxe signed editions
Unholy Loves (1979 Vanguard) (1980 Gollancz)
All the Good People I've Left Behind (1979 Black Sparrow) - 1300, of which 300 signed
Bellefleur (1980 Dutton) (1981 Cape £7.50)
Three Plays (1980 Ontario Review Press)
A Middle-Class Education : A Short Story (1980 Albondocani) - 300 numbered and signed
Celestial Timepiece (1980 Pressworks, Dallas)

1981-1985
Angel of Light (1981 Dutton) (1981 Cape)
Contraries : Essays (1981 OUP)
Nightless Nights : Nine Poems (1981 Ewert) - 100 numbered and signed
A Bloodsmoor Romance (1982 Dutton) (1983 Cape)
Invisible Woman : Selected Poems 1970-1982 (1982 Ontario Review Press)
New and Selected Poems (1982)
The Profane Art : Essays and Reviews (1983 Dutton)
Funland (1983 Wm B Ewert)
Leavetaking, at Dusk (1983 Stone House Press)
Mysteries of Winterthurn (1984 Franklin Library) (1984 Dutton) (1984 Cape)
Last Days (1984 Dutton) (1985 Cape)
Ernest Hemingway : Man's Man ? Woman Hater ? Our Greatest Writer ? (1984 Triangle)
Wild Saturday & Other Stories (1984 Dent Pb)
Luxury of Sin (1984 Lord John Press) - signed
Wild Nights (1985 Croissant & Co)
Solstice (1985 Dutton) (1985 Cape)

1986-1990
Marya : A Life (1986 Dutton) (1986 Franklin Lib) (1987 Cape)
The Miraculous Birth (1986 Ewert) - 85 signed
Raven's Wing (1986 Dutton) (1987 Cape)
American Appetites (1986)
The Time Traveler (1987 Lord John Press) - single poem
The Time Traveler : Collection (1987 Dutton)
You Must Remember This (1987 Dutton) (1987 Franlkin Lib) (1987 Macmillan £10.95)
Lives of the Twins (1987 Simon & Schuster) - by Rosamond Smith
(In UK as "Kindred Passions" 1988 Collins)
On Boxing (1987 Doubleday) (1987 Bloomsbury £9.95) -Photos by John Renard
The Assignation (1988 Ecco Press)
(Woman) Writer : Occasions and Opportunities (1988 Dutton)
Heat (1989 Whitney Museum of Art)
Such Beauty (1989 Ewert)
American Appetites (1989 Dutton) (1989 Macmillan)
Small Avalanches & Other Stories (1989 Eurographica, Helsinki) - 350 signed
Soul/Mate (1989 Dutton) (1991 NEL Pb) - by Rosamond Smith
Nemesis (1990 Dutton) (1991 Barrie & Jenkins) - by Rosamond Smith
Oates in Exile (1990 Exile Editions, Canada)
I Lock My Door Upon Myself (1990 Ecco Press $15.95)
Because it is Bitter, and Because It is My Heart (1990 Dutton) (1991 Macmillan £14.99)

1991-1995
Heat & Other Stories (1991 Dutton)
I Stand before You Naked (1991 Samuel French)
In Darkest America : Tone Clusters and the Eclipse (1991 Samuel French)
Twelve Plays (1991 Dutton)
(Anth) The Sophisticated Cat (1992 Dutton) (1993 Macmillan) - with Daniel Halpern
Black Water (1992 Dutton) (1992 Macmillan)
Where is Here ? (1992 Ecco Press)
Snake Eyes (1992 Dutton) - by Rosamond Smith
Foxfire : Confessions of a Girl Gang (1993 Dutton) (1993 Macmillan £14.99)
What I Lived For (1994 Dutton) (1995 Picador Pb)
Haunted : Tales of the Grotesque (1994 Dutton)
JCO and I (After Borges) (1994 Ewert)
Will You always Love Me ? (1994 Cahill) - 75 signed (1996 Dutton)
Zombie (1995 Dutton)
George Bellows : American Artist (1995 Ecco Press)
The Life of the Writer : The Life of the Career (1995 Bennington College)
The Perfectionist & Other Plays (1995 Ecco Press)
You Can't Catch Me (1995 Dutton) - by Rosamond Smith

After 1996
Demon and Other Tales (1996 Necronomicon Press) - pamphlet
Tenderness (1996 Ontario Review Press)
We Were the Mulvaneys (1996 Dutton)
[Achieved bestseller status as a result of having been promoted by Oprah Winfrey Book Club]
Double Delight (1997 Dutton) - By Rosamond Smith
Man Crazy (1997 Dutton) (1998 Virago)
Unspeakable (1998 Dutton)
New Plays (1998 Ontario Review Press)
The Collector of Hearts : New Tales of the Grotesque (1998 Dutton)
Come Meet Muffin ! (1998 Ecco Press)
My Heart Laid Bare (1998 Dutton)
Broke Heart Blues (1999 Dutton) (1999 Virago)
Where I've Been and Where I'm Going : Essays, Reviews & Prose (1999 Plume, US Pb)
Blonde (2000 Dutton) (2000 Fourth Estate £16.99)
The Barrens (2001) (2002 Orion £9.99) - as Rosamond Smith
Faithless : Tales of Transgression 2001 Ontario Review) (2003 Fourth Estate £7.99)
Middle Age : A Romance (2001 Fourth Estate)
Big Mouth & Ugly Girl (2002 Harper Tempest) (2003 Collins Flamingo £4.99)
I'll Take You There (2002 Ontario Review) (2003 Fourth Estate £10.99)
Beasts (2002 Carrol & Graf, NY) (2003 Orion £9.99)
The Tattooed Girl (2004 Fourth Estate £16.99)

READING
Mary Kathryn Grant : The Tragic Vision of Joyce Carol Oates (1978 Duke UP)
Joanne V Creighton : Joyce Carol Oates (1979 Twayne)
(Ed) Linda W Wagner : Critical Essays on Joyce Carol Oates (1979 Hall)
Ellen G Friedman : Joyce Carol Oates (1980 Ungar)
Eileen Teper Bender : Joyce Carol Oates - Artist in Residence (1987 Indiana UP)
Greg Johnson : Understanding Joyce Carol Oates (1987 South Carolina UP)
(Ed) Lee Milazzo : Conversations with Joyce Carol Oates (1989 Mississippi UP)
Brenda O Daly : Lavish Self-Divisions - The Novels of Joyce Carol Oates (1996)
Greg Johnson : Invisible Writer (1998 Dutton)