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Joyce Carol Oates is a world-renowned American author and is currently a humanities professor in the Art of Creative Writing at Princeton University. Oates is known for her novels and novellas, as well as for her short stories and plays. Some of her best known works include Big Mouth, Ugly Girl, Beasts and the short story "Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?".
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Fast Facts
- Born: June 16, 1938
- Birthplace: Lockport, New York
- Literary Genre: Fiction
- Awards: Nominated for 3 Pulitzer Prize Nominations
- AKA: Rosamond Smith and Lauren Kelly
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Career
Joyce Carol Oates began her career at an early age (publishing her first novel at age twenty-six) and has published prolifically ever since. She is currently a professor at Princeton University and serves as an associate editor for the Ontario Review, which her husband edited for more than thirty years. -
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Staff Pick of the Week (Part 1 of 3): High Lonesome by Joyce Carol Oates, Modern Critical Views: Joyce Carol Oates #libstaffpick
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RT @Silixell "Loneliness is like starvation: you don't realize how hungry you are until you begin to eat." ~ Joyce Carol Oates
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"Loneliness is like starvation: you don't realize how hungry you are until you begin to eat." ~ Joyce Carol Oates
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@SarKE Joyce Carol Oates? Alice Munro? Richard Ford? Tobias Wolff? George Saunders? TC Boyle?
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@ShakespeareF Thanks :). Don't forget the pics of Joyce Carol Oates and Mike Resnick!
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Blonde: A Novel - $16.95
In her most ambitious work to date, Joyce Carol Oates boldly reimagines the inner, poetic, and spiritual life of Norma Jeane Baker -- the child, the woman, the fated celebrity and idolized blonde the world came to know as Marilyn Monroe. In...
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The Journal of Joyce Carol Oates: 1973-1982 - $16.95
The Journal of Joyce Carol Oates, edited by Greg Johnson, offers a rare glimpse into the private thoughts of this extraordinary writer, focusing on excerpts written during one of the most productive decades of Oates's long career. Fa...
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The Journal of Joyce Carol Oates - $13.99
On New Year's Day, 1973, Joyce Carol Oates began keeping a journal that she maintains to this present day. When the journals began, 34-year-old Oates was already a recipient of the National Book Award (1969), with many O. Henry awards, a...
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Wild Nights! - $15.90
Stories about the last days of Poe, Dickinson, Twin, James, and Hemingway
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View All Joyce Carol Oates Questions (33) | Ask a Questionflauberts influence on Joyce was profound, but may not have been entirely salutary-which was Flauberts influence on Joyce (1 Answer)Studies have shown that there was a lot of technical intertextuality between Flaubert and Joyce. http://www.joyceimages.com/media/ji/MW_Tours_SB_.jpg">http://www.joyceimages.com/media/ji/MW_Tours_SB_.jpg" /> read moreIs http://www.coopersjd.com a Carol Burnett fansite? It has more than 70 pages about Carol Burnett so I assume it must be a Carol Burnett fayes aparently so read moreDoes anyone have the audio from the Carol Bartz conference call? (2 Answers)An audio replay of the call will be available for one week following the conference call by calling (888) 286-8010 or (617) 801-6888, reservation number: 29476596. read more
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Joyce Carol Oates Personal Timeline
- June 16, 1938: Born in Lockport, New York
- 1960: Graduates from Syracuse University
- 1961: Receives M.A. from University of Wisconsin-Madison
- 1968: Begins teaching at University of Windsor
- 1970: Wins National Book Award
- 1978: Begins teaching at Princeton University
- 1996: Bram Stoker Award
- 2001: Novel We Were the Mulvaney's chosen for Oprah's Book Club
- 2007: American Humanist of the Year
