Joyce Carol Oates
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born
June 16, 1938
gender
female
place of birth
Lockport, New York, The United States
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Literature & Fiction
about this author
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.
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We Were the Mulvaneys by Joyce Carol Oates avg rating 3.40 — 7,463 ratings — published 1996 23 editions |
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The Falls: A Novel by Joyce Carol Oates avg rating 3.44 — 1,540 ratings — published 2004 15 editions |
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The Gravedigger's Daughter by Joyce Carol Oates avg rating 3.41 — 1,375 ratings — published 2007 12 editions |
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Foxfire by Joyce Carol Oates avg rating 3.74 — 1,086 ratings — published 1993 15 editions |
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Blonde by Joyce Carol Oates avg rating 3.89 — 1,032 ratings — published 2000 18 editions |
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Black Water by Joyce Carol Oates avg rating 3.53 — 906 ratings — published 1992 15 editions |
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Missing Mom: A Novel by Joyce Carol Oates avg rating 3.42 — 864 ratings — published 2005 12 editions |
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Because It Is Bitter, and Because It Is My Heart by Joyce Carol Oates avg rating 3.87 — 696 ratings — published 1990 7 editions |
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Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?: Selected Early Stories by Joyce Carol Oates avg rating 4.19 — 572 ratings — published 1979 6 editions |
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Zombie by Joyce Carol Oates avg rating 3.41 — 644 ratings — published 1995 11 editions |
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April 2009,
Joyce Carol Oates
"I consider myself a thoroughly American writer in the tradition of the great psychological realists—Melville, Hawthorne, Henry James—who nonetheless delve into the mythic and emblematic. Some of my "gothic" fiction is akin to Edgar Allan Poe, who wrote of the nightmare side of America while steadfastly refusing to acknowledge anything remotely historical, timely, or local in his fiction." ...More
"I consider myself a thoroughly American writer in the tradition of the great psychological realists—Melville, Hawthorne, Henry James—who nonetheless delve into the mythic and emblematic. Some of my "gothic" fiction is akin to Edgar Allan Poe, who wrote of the nightmare side of America while steadfastly refusing to acknowledge anything remotely historical, timely, or local in his fiction." ...More
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"Reading is the sole means by which we slip, involuntarily, often helplessly, into another's skin, another's voice, another's soul."
— Joyce Carol Oates
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"We work in the dark—we do what we can—we give what we have. Our doubt is our passion, and our passion is our task. The rest is the madness of art.
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