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Joyce Carol Oates

Born

in Lockport, New York, The United States

June 16, 1938

Website

http://celestialtimepiece.com

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Genre

Literature & Fiction, Short Stories, Criticism

Influences

Lewis Carroll, Charlotte Brontë, Emily Brontë, Charles Dickens, D.H. L ...more

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Joyce Carol Oates 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 collections The Wheel of Love (1970) and 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 i ...more

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Average rating: 3.66 · 534,660 ratings · 58,700 reviews · 864 distinct works • Similar authors

	We Were the Mulvaneys 3.75 avg rating — 106,693 ratings — published 1996 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Blonde 3.92 avg rating — 17,863 ratings — published 2000 — 109 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Zombie 3.32 avg rating — 13,707 ratings — published 1995 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Falls 3.62 avg rating — 12,142 ratings — published 2004 — 76 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Gravedigger's Daughter 3.59 avg rating — 11,654 ratings — published 2007 — 14 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Fox 3.76 avg rating — 10,835 ratings — published 2025 — 18 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Black Water 3.56 avg rating — 10,105 ratings — published 1992 — 47 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Foxfire: Confessions of a Girl Gang 3.78 avg rating — 8,440 ratings — published 1993 — 65 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been? Selected Early Stories 4.16 avg rating — 7,632 ratings — published 1966 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Butcher 3.80 avg rating — 8,255 ratings — published 2024 — 28 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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April 2016 New School Classic Group Read

1927, To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf, 209 pages

32 votes, 18.1%

1966, The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov, 407 pages

28 votes, 15.8%

1973, Breakfast of Champions by Kurt Vonnegut, 302 pages

18 votes, 10.2%

1961, Revolutionary Road by Richard Yates, 346 pages

17 votes, 9.6%

1969, The Godfather by Mario Puzo, 448 pages

13 votes, 7.3%

1905, Where Angels Fear to Tread by E.M. Forster, 147 pages

11 votes, 6.2%

1961, Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert A. Heinlein, 528 pages

10 votes, 5.6%

1962, The Man in the High Castle by Philip K. Dick, 259 pages

9 votes, 5.1%

1994, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami, 607 pages

9 votes, 5.1%

1963, The Clocks by Agatha Christie, 381 pages

9 votes, 5.1%

1900, Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad, 455 pages

6 votes, 3.4%

1937, Christ in Concrete by Pietro Di Donato, 256 pages

4 votes, 2.3%

1957, The Midwich Cuckoos by John Wyndham, 220 pages

4 votes, 2.3%

1969, them by Joyce Carol Oates, 576 pages

3 votes, 1.7%

1962, Big Sur by Jack Kerouac, 256 pages

3 votes, 1.7%

1957, The Door Into Summer by Robert A. Heinlein, 304 pages

1 vote, 0.6%

1929, Cimarron by Edna Ferber, 400 pages

0 votes, 0.0%

177 total votes

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