The Barrens

Joyce Carol Oates, one of America’s most honored writers, is the author of the New York Times best-seller and Oprah Book Club selection We Were the Mulvaneys, among numerous novels, and the novella Beasts, recently published by Carroll & Graf. She has won the National Book Award, for Them, as well as the PEN/Malamud Award for Excellence in Short Fiction. She lives in Princeton, New Jersey.