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Joyce Carol Oates


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in Lockport, New York, The United States
June 16, 1938

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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
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We Were the Mulvaneys

3.75 avg rating — 104,893 ratings — published 1996 — 71 editions
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Blonde

3.93 avg rating — 17,103 ratings — published 2000 — 26 editions
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Zombie

3.32 avg rating — 12,988 ratings — published 1995 — 45 editions
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The Falls

3.61 avg rating — 11,690 ratings — published 2004
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The Gravedigger's Daughter

3.58 avg rating — 11,324 ratings77 editions
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Black Water

3.55 avg rating — 9,582 ratings — published 1992
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Foxfire: Confessions of a G...

3.78 avg rating — 8,201 ratings — published 1993 — 65 editions
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Where Are You Going, Where ...

4.16 avg rating — 7,298 ratings — published 1966 — 7 editions
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My Life as a Rat

3.73 avg rating — 6,923 ratings — published 2019 — 5 editions
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Rape: A Love Story

3.65 avg rating — 6,349 ratings — published 2003 — 42 editions
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Quotes by Joyce Carol Oates  (?)
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“I never change, I simply become more myself.”
Joyce Carol Oates, Solstice

“Reading is the sole means by which we slip, involuntarily, often helplessly, into another's skin, another's voice, another's soul.”
Joyce Carol Oates

“The best revenge is living well without you. ”
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Tie-Breaker for our English-language seasonal author poll 2016

 
  59 votes, 59.6%

 
  40 votes, 40.4%

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