Joyce Carol Oates

A prolific writer who defies genre strictures, Joyce Carol Oates has produced a wide range of serious and controversial fiction. Her works have been nominated for Pulitzers, National Book Awards, Faulkner Awards, World Fantasy Awards, and Bram Stoker Awards. She's won a National Book Award and been #1 on the New York Times Best Seller List.

Born in 1938, Oates grew up in New York and attended Syracuse University on a scholarship. She graduated as the valedictorian there and then earned a master's at the University of Wisconsin. For several years she taught at the University of Windsor and then Princeton University, where she is now a Distinguished Professor of Humanities.

Oates also writes under the name Rosamond Smith.

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