The Lost Landscape (34 page)

Joyce in the backyard of the Millersport house, aged three or four.
(Fred Oates)

(Fred Oates)

(Fred Oates)

Joyce and Frederick Oates, 1943.
(Carolina Oates)

Joyce with baby brother Robin (Fred, Jr.), 1943.
(Fred Oates)

June high school graduation, 1956, age eighteen.
(Fred Oates)

Easter, April 17, 1949.
(Fred Oates)

Mademoiselle
fiction contest co-winner, Syracuse, 1959, age twenty.
(Dorothea Palmer)

Frederick Oates, 1935, age twenty-one.

Joyce's parents, Fred and Carolina Oates, on the wing of an open cocktail airplane, Lee's Airfield, Swormville, New York, 1940s.

Fred Oates with a Waco single-prop plane.

Fred Oates, age mid-seventies.
(Ray Smith)

Carolina Oates, age mid-seventies.
(Ray Smith)

JOYCE CAROL OATES
is a recipient of the National Medal of Humanities, the National Book Critics Circle Ivan Sandrof Lifetime Achievement Award, the National Book Award, and the PEN/Malamud Award for Excellence in Short Fiction. She has written some of the most enduring fiction of our time, including
We Were the Mulvaneys; Blonde
, which was nominated for the National Book Award; and the
New York Times
bestseller
The Accursed
. She is the Roger S. Berlind Distinguished Professor of the Humanities at Princeton University and has been a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters since 1978.

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