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Joyce Carol Oates in Joyce Carol Oates: A Body in the Service of Mind (2021)

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"I come from people who did not go to college. They didn't even finish high school. People who one might call ordinary Americans who are very hardworking." Growing up on a farm in the rundown North Country of Upstate New York seems an unlikely preparation for a literary career, but today, Joyce Carol Oates is one of America's most prolific and respected authors. She has distinguished herself in the academic world as teacher and critic, while earning a fortune as the author of bestselling…

Joyce Carol Oates

Joyce Carol Oates and Raymond Smith (1972)

Joyce Carol Oates. Since her debut in 1963, Joyce Carol Oates has published over fifty novels exploring themes of gender, violence, race and the darker elements of the human condition. Her novel Them won a National Book Award and three of her novels were nominated for a Pulitzer Prize.

The author, whose latest book, ‘Zero-Sum,’ is out in July, surveys fresh, often dark ideas about artificial intelligence and extinction.

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Talking to Joyce Carol Oates feels like talking to a ghost. Oates, the writer of dozens of novels and thousands of stories, is very pale and slender, with huge, heavy-lidded eyes that give her an otherworldly presence. She speaks gently and serenely, as if from a great distance away, even when she's discussing the feverish early days after the death of her first husband, the literary-magazine and book editor Ray Smith.

Joyce Carol Oates looks to her childhood and beyond in tracing the roots of her vocation.

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Joyce Carol Oates - Princeton University Program in Creative Writing

In July this year Joyce Carol Oates, one of the most prominent writers of her generation, posted on Twitter her top 10 writing tips. For new and experienced writers alike, this is some very valuable…

The 'Blonde' novelist, 84, talks Marilyn Monroe, Twitter drama, and her latest book, 'Babysitter.'

“I have beliefs, of course, like everyone—but I don't always believe in them.”