Joyce Carol Oates will be reading from The Lost Landscape: A Writer’s Coming of Age (Ecco $27.99) on Tuesday, October 27 at 6 p.m. at Labyrinth Books of Princeton.

“Oates perfectly captures the unique confusion of childhood, brought on by the unsatisfying explanations of adults,” according to Elle magazine. The San Francisco Chronicle calls The Lost Landscape an “intriguing new memoir … Oates mines literary gold.” Says The Philadelphia Inquirer: “This captivating account of the growth of a writer’s mind puts the new collection of essays firmly in the tradition of similar autobiographical works by writers such as Goethe, Wordsworth, and Joyce.” 

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, and has been nominated for the Pulitzer Prize. Her works include We Were the Mulvaneys; Blonde, which was nominated for the National Book Award; and the New York Times bestseller The Accursed. She is Distinguished Professor of the Humanities and Professor of Creative Writing, Emerita, at Princeton University.

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