The Frenzy

Praise for Joyce Carol Oates

“Oates is one of the greatest writers among us today.”—Gillian Flynn

“Oates is a genius in the truest sense of the word.”—Rebecca Makkai

“Nobody else writes like the great Joyce Carol Oates. It’s remarkable.”—Joseph Finder

“Protean and prodigious are surely the words that describe Ms. Oates.”—Richard Ford

“[Oates] is one of the handful of great American novelists of the last hundred years.”—Edmund White

“That rarity in American fiction, a writer who seems to grow with each new book.”—Time

“A literary master.”—Bookreporter

“A master of her craft.”—AARP

Joyce Carol Oates is a recipient of a National Humanities Medal awarded by President Barack Obama, the National Book Critics Circle’s Ivan Sandrof Life Achievement Award, the National Book Award in Fiction, the Jerusalem Prize, the Prix Femina, the Cino Del Duca World Prize, and is a five-time finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. She has written some of the most enduring fiction of our time, including the bestsellers Blonde and We Were the Mulvaneys. She is the Roger S. Berlind ‘52 Distinguished Professor of the Humanities Emerita at Princeton University and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters. In 2024 she won the Raymond Chandler Lifetime Achievement Award given to “a master of the thriller and noir literary genre.”

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