Manuscript of Joyce Carol Oates's "Convalescing," 1969

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Joyce Carol Oates is one of the most prolific writers in American literary history, working across genres such as criticism, memoir, poetry, drama, horror, mystery, and literary fiction. Oates won the 1970 National Book Award for Fiction for her novel them (Vanguard, 1969) and is a four-time finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. She is a winner of the National Humanities Medal and the Jerusalem Prize.  
 
A frequent contributor to VQR since the mid-1960s, Oates won the Emily Balch Prize for Fiction for her story “Convalescing,” published in the Summer 1969 issue.