One of the most prolific writers of our time, Joyce Carol Oates has written more than fifty novels over her long career, as well as stories, essays, poems, and plays. Now, at age 77, the award-winning author has penned her first book dedicated to her own upbringing. She recalls her youngest days on a farm in upstate New York, marked by freedom, exploration, and her first encounters with death and loss. What emerges is a portrait not only of one young writer’s development, but of the ways in which public discourse has shifted in the decades since, on issues from gender equality to suicide to the freedom we give our children. Author Joyce Carol Oates on how her childhood shaped her six-decade writing career, and what she says growing up in today’s world could mean for the young writers of tomorrow.
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