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Joyce Carol Oates

Joyce Carol Oates's biography

Joyce Carol Oates is 84 years old playwright born at Lockport, New York. Joyce was born on Thursday 16th of June 1938. According to year of birth 1938 Joyce belongs to Silent Generation. Birthday on 16th of June means she is Gemini. Gemini is a dual sign of Zodiac Belt. One born with this rising sign is very dual and creative in nature with lots of verbosity. They are the most expressive people as they love talking.

She is native english speaker. She is white american. Joyce is citizen of United States of America. Joyce is atheist. Her primary profession is to be playwright. You can know Joyce also as poet, novelist, essayist, autobiographer, writer, screenwriter, university teacher, professor, children's writer, author. She is recently known as diarist.

Joyce Carol Oates's family

Joyce Carol Oates's ex husband

Raymond J. Smith

Joyce Carol Oates and Raymond J. Smith have been together since 1961 for 47 years.

Joyce Carol Oates's schools

We found 5 schools She attended. Complete list of schools: University of Detroit Mercy, Rice University, Syracuse University, University of Wisconsin–Madison, Williamsville South High School.

Joyce Carol Oates's career

Her main focus is to be playwright and poetry. Joyce is famous thanks to Black Water.

Is Joyce Carol Oates gay ?

She is known to be straight.

Awards and competitions

Joyce Carol Oates's Awards

  • She received award for National Book Award for Fiction for work Them in 1970
  • Joyce received award for Bram Stoker Award for Novel for work Zombie in 1995
  • Joyce received award for Oprah's Book Club for work We Were the Mulvaneys in 2001

Joyce Carol Oates's Nominations

  • Joyce was nominated for National Book Award for Fiction for work A Garden of Earthly Delights in 1968
  • Joyce was nominated for National Book Award for Fiction for work Them in 1970
  • She was nominated for National Book Award for Fiction for work Wonderland in 1972
  • She was nominated for National Book Award for Fiction for work Because It Is Bitter, and Because It Is My Heart in 1990
  • Joyce was nominated for Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for work Black Water in 1993
  • Joyce was nominated for National Book Award for Fiction for work Blonde in 2000
  • Joyce was nominated for Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for work Blonde in 2001

What else you don't know about Joyce Carol Oates ?

Her middle name is Carol.

Joyce Carol Oates's quotes

  • I'm drawn to failure. I feel like I'm contending with it constantly in my own life.
  • I am concerned with only one thing, the moral and social conditions of my generation.
  • [on self-respect] We inhabit ourselves without valuing ourselves, unable to see that here, now, this very moment is sacred; but once it's gone--its value is incontestable.
  • [on desire] In love there are two things: bodies and words.
  • [on time] Surpassingly lovely, precious days. What is there to say except: here they are. Sifting through my fingers like sand.
  • [on art] We are stimulated to emotional response not by works that confirm our sense of the world, but by works that challenge it.
  • [on spirit] How reluctant the world is to grant complexity in us...how reluctant we all are. Though knowing ourselves mysterious, subtle, complex, self-contradictory.
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Joyce Carol Oates's body shape, eye color

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