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Mar 29, 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 ...
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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 collections The Wheel ...
- 1963–present
- June 16, 1938 (age 85), Lockport, New York, U.S.
Joyce Carol Oates was born on June 16, 1938, in Lockport, New York, the oldest of Frederic and Caroline Oates's three children. The family lived on a farm owned by Caroline's parents. Joyce's father was a tool designer, and her mother was a housewife. Oates was a serious child who read a great deal. Even before she could write, she told stories ...
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Nov 20, 2023 · Oates was the oldest of three children. The youngest, Lynn Ann, was born when Oates was about to leave for college and was “my replacement,” Oates wrote in an essay. She chose Lynn’s name ...
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Aug 22, 2022 · June 16, 1938. Joyce Carol Oates was born in Lockport, New York. She grew up on her parents’ farm, outside the town, and went to the same one-room schoolhouse her mother had attended. This rural area of upstate New York, straddling Niagara and Erie Counties, had been hit hard by the Great Depression. The few industries the area enjoyed ...
Mar 21, 2024 · The routine was not all that remarkable for her, but from the outside looking in, it felt momentous. There, across the driveway, was Joyce Carol Oates, and she was writing. If, as Oates has argued, “writing is a consequence of being ‘haunted’ by material,” then I am haunted by her presence as my former next-door neighbor.
OATES, Joyce Carol 1938- (Lauren Kelly, Rosamond Smith) Personal Born June 16, 1938, in Lockport, NY; daughter of Frederic James (a tool and die designer) and Caroline (Bush) Oates; married Raymond Joseph Smith [1], January 23, 1961.
