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Joyce Carol Oates
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Joyce Carol Oates is an American author born in 1938 who has been a major figure in contemporary literature. She is significant for her prolific output and influence on American writing across multiple genres.
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Joyce Carol Oates is an American author, poet and playwright. She published her first book in 1963 and has since published 58 novels, as well as a number of plays and novellas, and many volumes of short stories, poetry, and nonfiction.
Known for
- Joyce Carol Oates: A Body in the Service of Mind — Self2022
- Corona Film Club — Self2021
- Fallen Champ: The Untold Story of Mike Tyson — Self1993
- The Simpsons — Joyce Carol Oates (voice)1989
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Carol
- Gender
- female
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Lockport
- Occupation
- docent
- Employer
- University of Windsor
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Native language
- English language
- Religion
- atheism
- Field of work
- philosophy
- Image
- Joyce Carol Oates, Bokmässan 2024, P1270511.jpg
- Work location
- Princeton
- Residence
- Detroit
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- influenced by
- Charles Dickens
- Commons category
- Joyce Carol Oates
- date of birth
- 1938-06-16
- name in native language
- Joyce Carol Oates
- pseudonym
- Lauren Kelly
- on focus list of Wikimedia project
- Art+Feminism
- start of work period
- 1963-00-00
- social media followers
- 224266
- has works in the collection
- Smithsonian American Art Museum
- floruit
- 1999-01-01
- archives at
- Göttingen State and University Library
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Encyclopedic overview
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.
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