Joyce Carol Oates

Joyce Carol Oates was born in Lockport, in the State of New York, in 1938, and grew up in a working-class Catholic family in Millersport, a neighbouring village. She went to school in a one-room building and graduated first in her class at Syracuse in 1960. Since then she has published more than a hundred books, novels, short stories, poems, essays and plays, taught for thirty-six years at Princeton, and has been a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize several times without ever winning it. She lives in New Jersey.

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• NovelthemJoyce Carol Oates · 1969Literature