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Joyce Carol Oates has 853 books on Goodreads with 1178097 ratings. Joyce Carol Oates’s most popular book is We Were the Mulvaneys.
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Joyce Carol Oates is one of most prolific and versatile contemporary writer in the United States of America. She has produced so much work and on various subjects, but most of which focus majorly on intellectual, sexual and spiritual decline of modern America society.
Joyce Carol Oates, an acclaimed writer popularly known for novels such as ‘The Falls’, ‘A Garden of Earthly Delights’ and ‘them’ that won the National Book Award, was born on the 16th of June 1938, in Lockport, New York. Joyce dad, Fredrick James Oates was a tool designer, while her mum, Caroline was a homemaker or housewife of Hungarian descent. C...
In 1961, after receiving her master’s degree and beginning her Ph.D. in English at Rice University, Joyce Oates came across one of her stories in Foley’s collection of Best American Short Stories. It was then that she decided to launch her writing career (become a full-time writer) and published her first book, a collection of short stories in 1963...
Throughout her writing career, Joyce has distributed her energies amongst various projects simultaneously. Her ‘On Boxing’, book-length essay published in 1987 resulted in more than one appearance mentioning on a televised boxing bout. Almost simultaneously, she submitted a mystery novel under a pseudonym to a publisher and had the delight of havin...
Some of Oates’s later publications include the 1990 ‘Because It Is Bitter, and Because It Is My Heart’ where she returns to her familiar themes of violence and race, the 1992 ‘Black Water’, an narration of a catastrophic encounter between a young woman and a powerful U.S. senator at a party, and the 1993 ‘Foxfire: Confessions of a Girl Gang’, which...
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.
List of the published work of Joyce Carol Oates, American writer. Oates at the Miami Book Fair International 2014. Novels. With Shuddering Fall (1964) A Garden of Earthly Delights (1967) Expensive People (1968) Them (1969) Wonderland (1971) Do With Me What You Will (1973) The Assassins (1975) Childwold (1976) Son of the Morning (1978) Cybele (1979)
Discover five of the best books by Joyce Carol Oates, one of the most prolific and acclaimed American writers. From them to Black Water, these novels explore themes of class, race, violence, and identity in different historical and social contexts.
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