Joyce carol oates bio

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(    ) US author who has also written as by Fernandes, Lauren Kelly and Rosamond Smith. Her immensely prolific career – at least seventy-seven novels; somewhere approaching short stories, many of them long and ambitious, most but not all assembled in forty or more collections; plus fifty plays and much other work – has in itself been a barrier to her proper appreciation. In recent years, however, despite its almost unassimilable and unremitting growth, with around seventy new volumes published in the first two decades of the twenty-first century, that oeuvre has become recognized – none too soon – as a necessary part of the story of American literature. Her roots are various, though in the context of this encyclopedia her affinity to the Gothic strain in that literature (see Gothic SF; Horror in SF) is of specific interest.

Oates began publishing short fiction professionally in (see Longevity inom

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Joyce Carol Oates

American author (born )

Joyce Carol Oates (born June 16, ) is an American writer. Oates published her first book in , 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 (), What I Lived For (), and Blonde (), and her short story collections The Wheel of Love () and Lovely, Dark, Deep: Stories () 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 (), two O. Henry Awards, the National Humanities Medal, and the Jerusalem Prize ().

Oates taught at Princeton University from to , and is the Roger S. Berlind '52 Professor Emerita in the Humanities with the Program in Creative Writing.^[2] From to , she was a visiting professor at the University of California, Berkeley, where she taught short fiction in the spring semesters.^[3] She now tea

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Joyce Carol Oates

There is no more versatile and accomplished American writer than Joyce Carol Oates. The author of many books, Oates has penned bestselling novels, critically acclaimed collections of short fiction, as well as essays, plays, poetry, a memoir, A Widow's Story, and an unlikely bestseller, On Boxing. Her remarkable literary industry - which includes work as an editor and anthologist - spans forms, themes, topics and genres. Writing in The Nation, critic Henry Louis Gates Jr. said, "A future archeologist equipped only with her oeuvre could easily piece together the whole of postwar America." In , reflecting the widespread esteem in which her work is held, President Barack Obama awarded Oates the National Humanities Medal.

Best known for her fiction, Oates' novels include them, which won the National Book Award; Blonde, a bold reimagining of the inner life of Marilyn Monroe; The Falls, which won the France's Prix Femina; The Gravedigger’s