Fiction Author Spotlight: Joyce Carol Oates

Joyce Carol Oates started receiving praise for her writing at the young age of 19 when she received the "College Short Story Contest" by Mademoiselle magazine.

Like fellow American author John Updike, whose four-part series the Rabbit Series received international awards per book, Oates' four-part series The Wonderland Quartet catapulted her into fiction stardom.

Consisting of the four novels:

1. A Garden of Earthly Delights (1967)


2. Expensive People (1968)


3. them (1969)


4. Wonderland (1971)

All four received nominations for the National Book Award for Fiction but only them received the honor.

Throughout her life, Joyce Carol Oates has published 56 novels, 30 short-story collections and 8 volumes of poetry.

Papervitamins Social Updates for the Summer

The summer is for reading so Papervitamins has decided to roll out big updates.

Book & Author Following Functionality

Users can easily follow and recommend books, authors, publishers and awards.

User Following and Followers Functionality

Users can follow other users. On each user page, you can now see what other users are interested in. For example: user mrpowerlunch is following a set of authors.

Papervitamins User Activity Feed

The user activity is now much more transparent to all users.
There is an all user activity page and also activity for single users like bingsby.

More complete User Pages

User pages are now very easy to edit and include features like "Books I wish I wrote."

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Remember, all the activity for Papervitamins can be seen using the sitewide activity RSS feed.


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