Joyce Carol Oates is a recipient of the National Medal of Humanities, the National Book Critics Circle Ivan Sandrof Lifetime Achievement Award, the National Book Award, and the 2019 Jerusalem Prize, and has been several times nominated for the Pulitzer Prize. She has written some of the most enduring fiction of our time, including the national bestsellers We Were the Mulvaneys; Blonde, which was nominated for the National Book Award; and the New York Times bestseller The Falls, which won the 2005 Prix Femina. She is the Roger S. Berlind Distinguished Professor of the Humanities at Princeton University and has been a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters since 1978.
"Stunning...[a] varied, kaleidoscopic, and...insightful map to the formation of a writer who understands how deeply mysterious the 'familiar' really is." -- Publishers Weekly"...a tender-hearted excavation of [Oates'] hardscrabble early life...in sharing with us the lost landscape of her childhood, she has ensured it will never be forgotten." -- O magazine"Oates perfectly captures the unique confusion of childhood, brought on by the unsatisfying explanations of adults." -- Elle"'The Lost Landscape'...offers a window into a highly original mind. While it is never a given that a writer's personal story can illuminate her work, in Oates' case, it very much does." -- Minneapolis Star Tribune"[An] intriguing new memoir...Oates mines literary gold." -- San Francisco Chronicle"This captivating account of the growth of a writer's mind puts [Oates'] new collection of essays firmly in the tradition of similar autobiographical works by writers such as Goethe, Wordsworth, and Joyce." -- Philadelphia Inquirer"[An] intimate yet sweeping memoir..." -- The New Yorker"...affecting...the book place[s] us intimately in the mind of Oates' vulnerable self." -- Providence Journal"A tender-hearted excavation of [Oates'] hardscrabble early life...in sharing with us the lost landscape of her childhood, she has ensured it will never be forgotten." -- O magazine
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