It seems disingenuous to ask a writer why she, or he, is writing about a violent subject when the world and history are filled with violence.

Together the couple founded The Ontario Review a literary magazine in 1974 on which Oates served as associate editor. Joyce Carol Oates (born June 16 1938) is an American author.

Oates publiJoyce Carol Oatesd her first book in 1963 and has since publiJoyce Carol Oatesd over forty novels as well as a number of plays and novellas and many volumes of short stories poetry and nonfiction. She has won many awards for her writing including the National Book Award for her novel them (1969) two O. Henry Awards and the National Humanities Medal.