Joyce Carol Oates
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- Oates, Joyce Carol
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- Date of birth
- 1938-06-16
- Place of birth
- Lockport
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Joyce Carol Oates (born June 16, 1938) 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. Her novels Black Water (1992), What I Lived For (1994), and Blonde (2000), and her short story collection Lovely, Dark, Deep: Stories (2014) were each finalists for the Pulitzer Prize. She has won many awards for her writing, including the National Book Award for her novel Them (1969), two O. Henry Awards, the National Humanities Medal, and the Jerusalem Prize (2019).
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. From 2016 to 2020, she was a visiting professor at the University of California, Berkeley, where she taught short fiction in the spring semesters. She now teaches at Rutgers University, New Brunswick.
Oates was elected to the American Philosophical Society in 2016.
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- Joyce Carol Oates wrote Normal Love
- Joyce Carol Oates wrote Totschlag
- Joyce Carol Oates wrote Der Mord
- Joyce Carol Oates wrote blurb for Jesus von Texas
- Joyce Carol Oates wrote Murder Two
- Joyce Carol Oates wrote Haunted
- Joyce Carol Oates wrote Blond
- Joyce Carol Oates wrote █████
- Joyce Carol Oates wrote Black Water
- Joyce Carol Oates wrote Blonde
- Joyce Carol Oates wrote Ausgesetzt
- Joyce Carol Oates wrote Fatal Woman
- Joyce Carol Oates wrote blurb for Die Versuchung der Eileen Hughes
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- 2025-08-06