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  <name><![CDATA[Joyce Carol Oates]]></name>
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  <about><![CDATA[Joyce Carol Oates is the author of the forthcoming novel My Sister, My Love. She 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. She is the Roger S. Berlind Distinguished Professor of the Humanities at Princeton University, and she has been a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters since 1978. Pseudonyms...Rosamond Smith and Lauren Kelly.]]></about>    <gender>female</gender>  <hometown>Lockport, New York</hometown>  <born_at>06/16/1938</born_at>    
  
  
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  <title><![CDATA[The Falls: A Novel]]></title>
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  <title><![CDATA[The Gravedigger's Daughter]]></title>
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  <title><![CDATA[Missing Mom: A Novel]]></title>
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  <title><![CDATA[Because It Is Bitter, and Because It Is My Heart]]></title>
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  <title><![CDATA[Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?: Selected Early Stories]]></title>
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  <title><![CDATA[Zombie]]></title>
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