Joyce Carol Oates is an American writer. Oates published her first book in 1963, and has since published 58 novels, a number of plays and novellas, and many volumes of short stories, poetry, and nonfiction. From Wikipedia
Martin mocks decision to remove his book due to explicit content, as the move is part of a larger campaign that saw 300 books being banned from Collier County schools under a state law making it easier to challenge titles that "depict or describe sexual conduct".