Joyce Carol Oates





Joyce Carol Oates

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in Lockport, New York, The United States
June 16, 1938

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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. 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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Princeton UniversityThe New York Times reports that in 2015 Joyce Carol Oates will, reluctantly, retire from Princeton University, where she has taught creative writing for more than 35 years.


I can understand that any institution leans toward phasing out more senior faculty, so that younger faculty can be hired, usually at lower salaries. This is all very transparent and sensible and it would be very wrong of me...

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Average rating: 3.63 · 154,119 ratings · 14,258 reviews · 209 distinct works · Similar authors
We Were the Mulvaneys
3.57 of 5 stars 3.57 avg rating — 40,947 ratings — published 1996 — 37 editions
The Falls
3.51 of 5 stars 3.51 avg rating — 4,934 ratings — published 2004 — 34 editions
The Gravedigger's Daughter
3.46 of 5 stars 3.46 avg rating — 4,825 ratings — published 2007 — 31 editions
Blonde
3.94 of 5 stars 3.94 avg rating — 4,028 ratings — published 2000 — 27 editions
Foxfire
3.76 of 5 stars 3.76 avg rating — 3,528 ratings — published 1993 — 15 editions
Zombie
3.38 of 5 stars 3.38 avg rating — 2,955 ratings — published 1995 — 21 editions
Black Water
3.5 of 5 stars 3.50 avg rating — 2,718 ratings — published 1992 — 20 editions
Where are You Going, Where ...
4.15 of 5 stars 4.15 avg rating — 2,117 ratings — published 1977 — 8 editions
Missing Mom
3.48 of 5 stars 3.48 avg rating — 2,222 ratings — published 2005 — 24 editions
Big Mouth and Ugly Girl
3.47 of 5 stars 3.47 avg rating — 2,179 ratings — published 2002 — 28 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

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“I never change, I simply become more myself.”
Joyce Carol Oates, Solstice

“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

“The best revenge is living well without you. ”
Joyce Carol Oates

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