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Baechler, Lea, A. Walton Litz, and Elaine Showalter, eds. Modern American Women Writers. New York: Collier, 1993.
Batman, Alex. "Joyce Carol Oates." American Poets Since World War II. Dictionary of Literary Biography, Vol. 5. Ed. Donald Greiner. Detroit: Gale, 1980. 99-102.
DeRamus, Betty. "Peeking into the Very Private World of Joyce Carol Oates." Authors in the News. Ed. Barbara Nykoruk. Detroit: Gale, 1976. 365-366. Reprinted From: Detroit Free Press Sunday Magazine 3 Mar. 1974: 13-15.
Friedman, Ellen G. "Joyce Carol Oates." American Women Writers. Vol. 3. Ed. Lina Mainiero. New York: Ungar, 1981. 281-285.
Hart, James D. "Oates, Joyce Carol (1938--)." Oxford Companion to American Literature. 5th ed. New York: Oxford U P, 1983. 549.
Janeway, Elizabeth. "Women's Literature." Harvard Guide to Contemporary American Writing. Ed. Daniel Hoffman. Cambridge, MA: Belknap, 1979. 377-381.
Joslin, Michael. "Joyce Carol Oates." American Novelists Since World War II. Dictionary of Literary Biography, Vol. 2. Ed. Jeffrey Hetterman and Richard Layman. Detroit: Gale, 1978. 371-381.
Koeppel, Geri. Newsmakers, 2000, Issue 4. Ed. Aaron J. Oppliger. Detroit: Gale, 2000.
Kort, Carol. A to Z of American Women Writers. Facts on File, 2000.
Magill, Frank N., ed. Great Women Writers: The Lives and Works of 135 of the World's Most Important Women Writers, from Antiquity to the Present. New York: Holt, 1994.
McCaffrey, Larry, ed. Postmodern Fiction: A Bio-Bibliographical Guide. Westport, CT: Greenwood, 1986.
Moritz, A.F., and Theresa Moritz. The Oxford Illustrated Literary Guide to Canada. New York: Oxford U P, 1987.
"Oates, Joyce Carol." Current Biography 55(June 1994): 33-38. Reprinted In: Current Biography Yearbook, 1994. Ed. Judith Graham. Wilson, 1994.
Riley, Carolyn, ed. "Joyce Carol Oates." Contemporary Literary Criticism. Vol. 3. Detroit: Gale, 1975. 359-364.
Robison, James C. The American Short Story: 1945-1980: A Critical History. Twayne's Critical History of the Short Story. Ed. Gordon Weaver. Boston: Twayne, 1983. 86-89.
Rollyson, Carl E., ed. Notable American Novelists. Salem, 2000.
Ryan, Bryan, ed. Major 20th-Century Writers: A Selection of Sketches from Contemporary Authors. 4 vols. Detroit: Gale, 1991.
Silva, Fred. Contemporary Novelists. 2nd ed. Ed. James Vinson. New York: St. Martin's, 1976. 1046-1049.
Sullivan, Jack, ed. The Penguin Encyclopedia of Horror and the Supernatural. New York: Viking, 1986.
Tolomeo, Diane. "Joyce Carol Oates." American Writers: Supplement 2, Part 2. Ed. A. Walton Litz. New York: Scribner's, 1981.
Wesley, Marilyn C. "Joyce Carol Oates." American Short-Story Writers since World War II. Dictionary of Literary Biography, Vol. 130. Detroit: Gale, 1993. 241-252.
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Frank, Frederick S. Through the Pale Door [A guide to supernatural and fantasy literature.]
Masterplots II: Short Story Series. Salem, 1987.
A Reader's Guide to the Twentieth-Century Novel.