The lost landscape: a writer's coming of age

We begin

Mommy & me

Happy chicken : 1942-1944

Discovering Alice : 1947

District School #7, Niagara County, New York

Piper Cub

After Black Rock

Sunday drive

Fred's signs

"They all just went away"

"Where had God gone"

Headlights : the first death

"The brush"

An unsolved mystery : the lost friend

"Start your own business!"

The lost sister : an elegy

Nighthawk : recollections of a lost time

Detroit : lost city 1962-1968

Story into film : "Where are you going, where have you been?" and Smooth Talk

Photo shoot : West Eleventh Street, NYC, March 6, 1970

Food mysteries

Facts, visions, mysteries : my father Frederic Oates, November 1988

A letter to my mother Carolina on her seventy-eighth birthday, November 8, 1994

"When I was a little girl and my mother didn't want me"

Excerpt, telephone conversation with my father Frederic Oates, May 1999

The long romance

My mother's quilts.