Joyce Carol Oates (Lockport, Nueva York, 1938) enseña escritura narrativa en la Universidad de Princeton, es miembro de la Academia Estadounidense de las Artes y las Letras y ha sido galardonada con algunos de los más prestigiosos premios literarios internacionales —el National Book Award, el PEN/Malamud Award y el Prix Femina Étranger—. Desde hace años es una de las más firmes candidatas al Premio Nobel de Literatura.

Melinda Camber Porter Archive of Creative WorksVolume I: Journalism and Volume II: Art and LiteratureISSN: 2379-2450 (Print), 2379-3198 (Ebook), 2379-321X (Audio)Website: www.MelindaCamberPorter.comBlake PressMelinda Camber Porter (1953 - 2008) was born in London and graduated from Oxford University with First-Class-Honors in Modern Languages. She began her writing career in Paris as a cultural correspondent for The Times of London. French culture is the subject of her book Through Parisian Eyes, which the Boston Globe describes as "a particularly readable and brilliantly and uniquely compiled collection."She interviewed major cultural figures including four Nobel Prize winners (Saul Bellow, Gunter Grass, Eugenio Montale, and Octavio Paz), and major writers and film directors from 1975 to 2008. She took thousands of photographys. Her novel, Badlands, a Book-of-the-Month Club selection, was set on South Dakota's Pine Ridge Indian Reservation. Receiving a Starred review from Booklist, and Publishers Weekly stated "a novel of startling, dreamlike lyricism." The library edition includes 45 of her photographs of the Badlands and Pine Ridge, SD.A film documenting her paintings and poems, The Art of Love, showed regularly on Public Television stations nationally with her exhibitions. Melinda Camber Porter's paintings served as the backdrops for her theatrical works for her musicals: Night Angel, with music by Carmen Moore and originally performed at Lincoln Center in New York City, and Journey to Benares, a rock-opera with music, direction and choreography by Elizabeth Swados, and was performed at the Asia Society and Museum in New York City.Melinda Camber Porter leaves a prolific legacy of art, journalism, literature, and media. The Library of Congress established the international standard serial numbers for The Melinda Camber Porter Archive of Creative Works, which comprises two series of books. The First Series are books of journalism. The Second Series are books of art and literature. [ISSN:2379-2450 (Print), 2379-3198 (Ebook), 2379-321X (Audio)] www.MelindaCamberPorter.com