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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 non-fiction.
Aug 27, 2024 · Joyce Carol Oates, American novelist, short-story writer, and essayist known for her vast literary output in a variety of styles and genres. She won a National Book Award for her 1969 novel them. Learn more about Oates’s life and career, including her other notable books.
Nov 20, 2023 · The Joyce Carol Oates who was writing a book about grief in her study appeared to have a separate existence from the woman who was taking walks and falling in love.
Jul 26, 2024 · Born during the Depression in Lockport, New York, Joyce Carol Oates started writing as a teen and has since written more than one hundred books, many of them portraying the darkness of American...
Jul 16, 2023 · Oates, whose latest is the unsettling short-story collection “Zero-Sum,” has published 62 novels, 47 short-story collections, 16 collections of nonfiction, 9 collections of poetry, plays and...
Jun 29, 2020 · The Unruly Genius of Joyce Carol Oates. In an era that fetishizes form, Oates has become America’s preëminent fiction writer by doing everything you’re not supposed to do. By Leo Robson. June 29,...
One of the most prolific American writers of the 20th century, Oates counts historical biographies, depictions of working class families, and magical realist Gothic fiction among her oeuvre. She often depicts hardships and violence in American towns, and has received both critical and popular acclaim in her 50-year career.
Joyce Carol Oates is a recipient of the National Book Award and the PEN/Malamud Award for Excellence in Short Fiction. She is also the recipient of the 2005 Prix Femina for The Falls.
May 21, 2024 · Through the lens of a 19th-century doctor, Joyce Carol Oates explores gothic medical horror.
Sep 25, 2021 · Joyce Carol Oates, 83, published her first book of short stories, By the North Gate, in 1963. She has since written novels, stories, essays, plays and memoirs. What was your childhood or...
