Joyce Carol Oates

Martin Kich (Wright State University)
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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 29 March 2024.]

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