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Where Are You Going, Where Hav

Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?

Joyce Carol Oates was born in 1938 in Lockport, New York. She started writing very young and that the age of fifteen she submitted her first novel, but it was rejected for being “too dark”. This style of writing is common on many of her works including “Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?” Oates graduated from Syracuse University and then went on to get her master’s degree from the University of Wisconsin. Oates “turned much often in her writing to everyday characters, which she often placed in situations that were both psychologically and socially terrifying.” (Short Stories For Students 258) Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been? is based on a killer in the southwest names Charles “Smitty” Schmid was charged of rape and murder of three young girls in the fall of 1965 in Tucson, Arizona. “Oates wrote the story after hearing Dylan’s song “Its All......


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