Joyce Carol Oates
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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 non-fiction. 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,[1] for her novel them (1969), two O. Henry Awards, the National Humanities Medal, and the Jerusalem Prize (2019).
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| Born | (1938-06-16) June 16, 1938 (age 85) Lockport, New York, U.S. |
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| Education | Syracuse University (BA) University of Wisconsin, Madison (MA) Rice University |
| Period | 1963–present |
| Notable works | A Garden of Earthly Delights (1967); them (1969); The Wheel of Love (1970); Wonderland (1971); Black Water (1992); Blonde (2000); High Lonesome: New & Selected Stories, 1966–2006 (2006) |
| Notable awards | O. Henry Award (1967) National Book Award (1970) O. Henry Award (1973) National Humanities Medal (2010) Stone Award for Lifetime Literary Achievement (2012) Jerusalem Prize (2019) |
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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.[2] Since 2016, she has been a visiting professor at the University of California, Berkeley, where she teaches short fiction in the spring semesters.[3]
Oates was elected to the American Philosophical Society in 2016.[4]