Joyce Carol Oates

Martin Kich (Wright State University)

Ed. by Emory Elliott, University of California, Riverside
The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 3.2.4: American (US) Writing and Culture: Postwar and Contemporary, 1945-present.
Vol. editors: Sofia Ahlberg (Uppsala University), Patrick Chura (University of Akron), Emory Elliott (University of California, Riverside), Dale Enggass (University of Utah), Christopher Hugh Gair (University of Glasgow), Matthew Hofer (University of New Mexico), Stephen E. Meats (Pittsburg State University), Kerry Myler (Birmingham Newman University), Justin Parks (UiT - The Arctic University of Norway), Nick Selby (University of East Anglia)

Dates

Born 16 Jun 1938
Activity 1963-ongoing

Places

Born in United States
Active in United States

Activities

Primary

Essayist
Literary Critic/ Historian
Novelist
Playwright / Dramatist
Poet
Scholar
Story-writer
Teacher/ Professor

Resources

Oates' Works

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Joyce Carol Oates is one of the pre-eminent writers of her generation. She has been honored with a long list of prestigious awards for individual novels and short stories and for career achievements in both genres. Over a long and incredibly productive career, she has maintained a consistently high level of craftsmanship. She received a National Book Award for her fourth novel,

them

, and was named a finalist for a National Book Award for her twenty-ninth novel,

Blonde

. In between, her novels

Black Water

(1992) and

What I Lived For

(1994) were finalists for the Pulitzer Prize. Her short stories have been included in almost every annual issue of

Prize Stories: The O. Henry Awards

for the past four decades.

Since her first collection of stories was published in 1963, Oates has produced 32

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Citation: Kich, Martin. "Joyce Carol Oates". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 28 February 2003 [https://www.litencyc.com/php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=4943, accessed 21 November 2024.]

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