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Authors: Joyce Carol Oates
Many thanks to the editors of the following magazines and anthologies in which the stories in this volume originally appeared, often in slightly different forms.
“Curly Red” in
Harper’s
“In Hiding” in
Michigan Quarterly Review
“I’m Not Your Son, I Am No One You Know” in
Witness
“Aiding and Abetting” in
Playboy
“Fugitive” in
Yale Review
“Me & Wolfie, 1979” in
Agni
“The Girl with the Blackened Eye” in
Witness
; reprinted in
The O. Henry Awards: Prize Stories
2001 and
The Best American Mystery Stories
2001
“Cumberland Breakdown” in
Boulevard
“Upholstery” in
The New Yorker
“Wolf’s Head Lake” in
Salmagundi
“Happiness” in
Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine
and reprinted in
The World’s Finest Crime and Mystery II
“Fire” in
TriQuarterly
“The Instructor” in
Salmagundi;
reprinted in
Pushcart Prize: Best of the Small Presses
2003
“The Skull: A Love Story” in
Harper’s;
reprinted in
The Best American Mystery Stories
2004
“
The Deaths:
An Elegy” in
Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine
“Jorie (& Jamie): A Deposition” in
New Statesman
(U.K.) and
Yale Review
“Mrs. Halifax and Rickie Swann: A Ballad” in
Boulevard
“Three Girls” in
Georgia Review;
reprinted in
Pushcart Prize: Best of the Small Presses
2004 and in
The Best American Magazine Writing
2003
“The Mutants” in
The Observer
(U.K.) and
Fiction
J
OYCE
C
AROL
O
ATES,
the author of over eighty-five volumes of prose, poetry, and drama, co-inaugurated the first HarperCollins e-book list with her short story collection,
Faithless: Tales of Transgression
(2001). It received the Frankfurt Distinguished E-Book Award for Fiction and contains “Dark Work,” an e-book-exclusive interview with Ms. Oates. Her other HarperCollins e-books are:
The Faith of a Writer
(2003);
Middle Age: A Romance
(2001); the novels
I’ll Take You There
(2002) and
The Tattooed Girl
(2003); and, for young adult readers,
Big Mouth & Ugly Girl
(2002).
Joyce Carol Oates
The Assignation (1988)
Heat and Other Stories (1991)
Where Is Here? (1992)
Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been? Selected Early Stories (1993)
Haunted: Tales of the Grotesque (1994)
Will You Always Love Me? (1996)
The Collector of Hearts: New Tales of the Grotesque (1998)
Faithless: Tales of Transgression (2001)
Cover design and illustration by John Lewis
I AM NO ONE YOU KNOW.
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ePub edition March 2004 eISBN 9780061745751
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