Biography
Joyce Carol Oates is an American author, poet and playwright. She published her first book in 1963 and has since published 58 novels, as well as a number of plays and novellas, and many volumes of short stories, poetry, and nonfiction.
Known For
Complete Filmography

Joyce Carol Oates: A Body in the Service of Mind
2022
as Self
Prolific writer Joyce Carol Oates has remained intensely private. Until now. Through a long-standing friendship, and persistent inquiry, director Stig...

Blonde
2022
Novel
From her volatile childhood as Norma Jeane, through her rise to stardom and romantic entanglements, this reimagined fictional portrait of Hollywood le...

Corona Film Club
2021
as Self
Documentary about filmmaker and film lover Stig Björkman during the pandemic year of 2020 when he stay in touch with his friends over his laptop.

Double Lover
2017
Novel
Chloé, a fragile young woman, falls in love with her psychoanalyst, Paul. A few months later she moves in with him, but soon discovers that her lover ...

Vengeance: A Love Story
2017
Novel
When a new friend is brutally assaulted, Detective John Droomor is put by chance in charge of the investigation. Although the evidence against the per...

Foxfire
2013
Novel
Set in the 1950s, a a group of young girls in upstate New York form their own gang.

ZOMBIE
2011
Novel
ZOMBIE, a 19 minute psychological horror film, is based on the award-winning novella by literary icon Joyce Carol Oates. A Jeffrey Dahmer-esque serial...
The Gathering Squall
2011
Original Story
On the precipice of adulthood, fourteen-year-old Lisellen Uhlmann is without a man in her life; her father is distant and boys in school ignore her. W...
Small Avalanches
2007
Novel
Still a child but longing to be an adult, thirteen year-old Nancy overcomes her first real threat as a female when an older man aggressively pursues h...
Små skred
2003
Short Story

We Were the Mulvaneys
2002
Novel
Based on the novel by the same name, We Were the Mulvaneys is a sensitive portrayal of one family's journey as they face conflict, fear, tragedy and u...

Getting to Know You
1999
Original Story
A chance encounter alters a teenage girl's perception of herself and her outlook on life.

Foxfire
1996
Book
The story of five teenage girls who form an unlikely bond after beating up a teacher who has sexually harassed them. They build a solid friendship but...

Fallen Champ: The Untold Story of Mike Tyson
1993
as Self
Fallen Champ: The Untold Story of Mike Tyson is a 1993 film made by acclaimed American documentary filmmaker Barbara Kopple. Though Tyson was in jail...

Lies of the Twins
1991
Novel
An ex-model is seduced into danger by her psychotherapist boyfriend's wicked identical twin.

Norman and the Killer
1991
Short Story
Story of a long and fateful night that unfolds when Norman, a man haunted by the memory of his slain brother, recognizes a gas station attendant as th...

Smooth Talk
1985
Novel
Connie, the fifteen-year-old black sheep of her family, finds her summertime idyll of beach trips, mall hangouts, and innocent flirtations shattered b...

In the Region of Ice
1976
Novel
In this American Film Institute-subsidized short subject, Fionnula Flanagan plays a sharp-tongued but compassionate nun, while Peter Lempert is cast a...