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Joyce
Carol Oates (1938-)
 Joyce
Carol Oates was born in 1938 in Lockport, New York, and raised in
the countryside where, she has said, most of the people did not
even go to high school. She was awarded a scholarship to Syracuse
University where she graduated Phi Beta Kappa and received her B.
A. in 1960. She received a fellowship to the University of Wisconsin
and was awarded her M. A. in 1961. She has taught at the University
of Detroit, the University of Windsor, Ontario, and Princeton, where
she is the Roger S. Berlind Distinguished Professor of the Humanities.
She has produced a prodigious number of short stories, novels, poems,
plays, and literary criticism. In fact, she wrote twenty-seven novels
in thirty years along with a book about boxing and many volumes
of short stories and poems.
Oates has
received many awards and honors for her work. These awards include
the National Book Award, the Rosenthal Award from the American Academy
Institute of Arts and Letters, a Guggenheim Fellowship, the O' Henry
Prize for Continued Achievement in the Short Story, the Elmer Holmes
Bobst Lifetime Achievement Award in Fiction, the Rea Award for the
Short Story, and membership in the American Academy Institute. She
also received two nominations for the Novel Prize in Literature.
Related
Links
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Timepiece: A Joyce Carol Oates Home Page
Angel
of Darkness
New York
State Writers Institute
Ann
On-line:Interview
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Carol Oates Reflects on Writing
Joyce
Carol Oates Bibliography
A Brief
Biography
Introduction
of Joyce Carol Oates
Chord Structure
in Joyce Carol Oates' "Heat"
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