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Joyce Carol Oates


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in Lockport, New York, The United States
June 16, 1938

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Literature & Fiction,Short Stories,Criticism

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Lewis Carroll,Charlotte Brontë,Emily Brontë,Charles Dickens,D.H. L ...more


Joyce Carol Oates is a recipient of the National Book Award and the PEN/Malamud Award for Excellence in Short Fiction. She is also the recipient of the 2005 Prix Femina for The Falls. She is the Roger S. Berlind Distinguished Professor of the Humanities at Princeton University, and she has been a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters since 1978. Pseudonyms...Rosamond SmithandLauren Kelly.
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Average rating: 3.66 · 460,557 ratings · 47,613 reviews ·830 distinct works •Similar authors
We Were the Mulvaneys
3.75 avg rating — 102,101 ratings — published 1996 — 68 editions
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Blonde
3.94 avg rating — 15,765 ratings — published 2000 — 108 editions
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The Falls
3.60 avg rating — 11,149 ratings — published 2004 — 72 editions
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The Gravedigger's Daughter
3.57 avg rating — 10,836 ratings — published 2007 — 73 editions
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Zombie
3.33 avg rating — 11,593 ratings — published 1995 — 43 editions
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Where Are You Going, Where ...
4.15 avg rating — 8,656 ratings — published 1966 — 19 editions
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Black Water
3.54 avg rating — 8,732 ratings — published 1992 — 52 editions
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Foxfire: Confessions of a G...
3.78 avg rating — 7,924 ratings — published 1993 — 58 editions
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My Life as a Rat
3.73 avg rating — 6,164 ratings — published 2019 — 37 editions
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Rape: A Love Story
3.63 avg rating — 5,911 ratings — published 2003 — 14 editions
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“I never change, I simply become more myself.”
― Joyce Carol Oates, Solstice
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“Reading is the sole means by which we slip, involuntarily, often helplessly, into another's skin, another's voice, another's soul.”
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“The best revenge is living well without you.”
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