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Joyce Carol Oates. Joyce Carol Oates (born June 16, 1938) 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 non-fiction. Her novels Black Water (1992), What I Lived For (1994), and Blonde (2000), and her short story ...
Oct 9, 2024 · Joyce Carol Oates (born June 16, 1938, Lockport, New York, U.S.) is an American novelist, short-story writer, and essayist noted for her vast literary output in a variety of styles and genres. Particularly effective are her depictions of violence and evil in modern society. Oates was born in New York state, the daughter of a tool-and-die ...
Nov 20, 2023 · The Joyce Carol Oates who was writing a book about grief in her study appeared to have a separate existence from the woman who was taking walks and falling in love. In 2018, nine years after they ...
Jun 13, 2024 · Joyce Carol Oates with the Prix Fitzgerald jury at Hôtel Belles Rives in June 2024 Oates is a big fan of Fitzgerald, whose former French Riviera home, now the Hôtel Belles Rives , is the base ...
Joyce Carol Oates is a recipient of the National Book Award and the PEN/Malamud Award for Excellence in Short Fiction. She is also the recipient of the 2005 Prix Femina for The Falls. She is the Roger S. Berlind Distinguished Professor of the Humanities at Princeton University, and she has been a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters since 1978.
Jul 16, 2023 · By David Marchese Photograph by Mamadi Doumbouya. “I have,” Joyce Carol Oates says, “so many ideas.”. That’s putting it mildly. It’s hard to think of another writer with as fecund and ...
Blonde is a 2000 biographical fiction novel by Joyce Carol Oates that presents a fictionalized take on the life of American actress Marilyn Monroe.Oates insists that the novel is a work of fiction that should not be regarded as a biography. It was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize (2001) and the National Book Award (2000). [1] Rocky Mountain News and Entertainment Weekly have listed Blonde as ...
Joyce Carol Oates is one of the most prolific writers in American literary history. Unusually, she has worked in a wide variety of genres—novel, short story, children’s fiction, detective fiction, horror fiction, drama, poetry, literary criticism, nonfiction, diary, and memoir. If there’s a “Joyce Carol Oates” whose work you don’t ...
Zombie is a 1995 horror novel by American writer Joyce Carol Oates, which explores the mind of a serial killer.It was based on the life of Jeffrey Dahmer.. Dahmer stated in an interview with Stone Phillips, "The only motive that there ever was to completely control a person, a person I found physically attractive, and keep them with me as long as possible, even if it meant keeping a part of them."
Joyce Carol Oates is the rarest of commodities, an author modest about her work, though there is such a quantity of it that she has three publishers—one for fiction, one for poetry and a “small press” for more experimental work, limited editions, and books her other publishers simply cannot schedule.