BACKGROUD: WHERE ARE YOU GOING? WHERE HAVE YOU BEEN?

A remarkably, even uniquely, prolific writer of short stories, poems, novels, and nonfiction, Joyce Carol
Oates was born in Lockport, New York. Daughter of a tool-and-die designer and his wife, she submitted
her first novel to a publisher at fifteen and a few years later became the first person in her family to
graduate from high school, later earning a BA from Syracuse University (1960) and an MA from the
University of Wisconsin (1961). The story first appeared in Epoch Magazine’s Fall 1966 magazine. It was
inspired by three murders perpetrated by Charles Schmid in Tucson, Arizona, which were profiled in Life
magazine on March 4, 1966, in an article written by Don Moser. [1] Oates claimed she wrote the story
after listening to Bob Dylan's song "It's All Over Now, Baby Blue," and she dedicated it to him. "Death
and the Maiden" was the original title of the story.

BACKGROUD: ARABY

James Joyce left Ireland for Paris in 1902 after graduating from University College, Dublin, and returned
a year later. Despite the fact that he spent the rest of his life as an expat, all of his fiction is set in Dublin.
Joyce had more than his good number of publication and censorship issues."Araby" is one of the 15
connected stories that make up Dubliners, a collection of short stories written by James Joyce while he
was a young man. It’s part of a wider story about life in Dublin at the turn of the 19TH century.