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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 — 105,259 ratings — published 1996 — 71 editions
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Blonde

3.92 avg rating — 17,240 ratings — published 2000 — 110 editions
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Zombie

3.33 avg rating — 13,118 ratings — published 1995 — 45 editions
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The Falls

3.61 avg rating — 11,770 ratings — published 2004 — 75 editions
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The Gravedigger's Daughter

3.59 avg rating — 11,389 ratings77 editions
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Black Water

3.55 avg rating — 9,704 ratings — published 1992 — 3 editions
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Foxfire: Confessions of a G...

3.78 avg rating — 8,236 ratings — published 1993 — 5 editions
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Where Are You Going, Where ...

4.16 avg rating — 7,365 ratings — published 1966 — 7 editions
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Fox

3.81 avg rating — 7,068 ratings — published 2025 — 13 editions
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My Life as a Rat

3.72 avg rating — 6,976 ratings — published 2019 — 2 editions
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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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