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Joyce Carol Oates
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. She has won many awards for her writing, including the National Book Award, for her novel them, two O. Henry Awards, the National Humanities Medal and the Jerusalem Prize. Her novels Black Water, What I Lived For, and Blonde and short story collections The Wheel of Love and Lovely, Dark, Deep: Stories were each finalists for the Pulitzer Prize. Oates taught at Princeton University from 1978 to 2014 and is the Roger S. Berlind '52 Professor Emerita in the Humanities with the Program in Creative Writing. She is a visiting professor at the University of California, Berkeley where she teaches short fiction. Oates was elected to the American Philosophical Society in 2016.
BornJune 16, 1938, Lockport, New York, U.S.
OccupationNovelist, short story writer, playwright, poet, literary critic, professor, editor
EducationSyracuse University (BA), University of Wisconsin, Madison (MA), Rice University
Period1963–present
Notable awardsO. Henry Award (1967), National Book Award (1970), O. Henry Award (1973), National Humanities Medal (2010), Stone Award for Lifetime Literary Achievement (2012), Jerusalem Prize (2019)

About Joyce Carol Oates

Novelist Joyce Carol Oates was born on June 16, 1938 in Lockport, New York, United States (She's 85 years old now).

Novelist, short story writer, playwright, poet, and essayist from the United States. Her novel them, published in 1969, won the National Book Award, and she was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize for Black Water (1992), What I Lived For (1994), and Blonde (1995). (2000).

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Joyce Carol Oates before becoming famous

Joyce Carol Oates was born in the Zodiac sign Gemini (The Twins), and 1938 is the year of the Chinese Zodiac Tiger (兎).

She started writing when she was fourteen years old and was the first in her family to graduate from high school. She graduated from Syracuse University in 1960 at the top of her class and published her debut novel, With Shuddering Fall, four years later.

Achievement of Joyce Carol Oates

For her short story In the Region of Ice, she won the O. Henry Award in 1967. She began teaching creative writing at Princeton University a decade later.

Joyce Carol Oates's Family, Spouse, Dating and Relationship

In 1961, she married Raymond J. Smith. Smith died of pneumonia in 2008, putting an end to the couple's nearly four-decade marriage. She married Charles Gross in 2009.

Joyce Carol Oates on Social Media

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Where Are You Going?, a short story about serial killers, was dedicated to her. Folk Singer Bob Dylan's folk singer/songwriter song, Where Have You Been?

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