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Joyce Carol Oates

April 13, 2023

Joyce Carol Oates (born June 16, 1938) is an American writer. Oates published her first book in 1963, and has since published 58 novels, a number of plays and novellas, and many volumes of short stories, poetry, and non-fiction. Her novels Black Water (1992), What I Lived For (1994), and Blonde (2000), and her short story collections The Wheel of Love (1970) and Lovely, Dark, Deep: Stories (2014) were each finalists for the Pulitzer Prize. She has won many awards for her writing, including the National Book Award,[1] for her novel them (1969), two O. Henry Awards, the National Humanities Medal, and the Jerusalem Prize (2019).

Joyce Carol Oates
Oates in 2014
Born (1938-06-16) June 16, 1938 (age 84)
Lockport, New York, U.S.
Occupation
EducationSyracuse University (BA)
University of Wisconsin, Madison (MA)
Rice University
Period1963–present
Notable awardsO. Henry Award (1967)
National Book Award (1970)
O. Henry Award (1973)
National Humanities Medal (2010)
Stone Award for Lifetime Literary Achievement (2012)
Jerusalem Prize (2019)
Spouses
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    (m. 1961; died 2008)​
  • Charles Gross
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    (m. 2009; died 2019)​

Oates taught at Princeton University from 1978 to 2014, and is the Roger S. Berlind '52 Professor Emerita in the Humanities with the Program in Creative Writing.[2] Since 2016, she has been a visiting professor at the University of California, Berkeley, where she teaches short fiction in the spring semesters.[3]

Oates was elected to the American Philosophical Society in 2016.[4]

Early life and education

Oates was born in Lockport, New York, the eldest of three children of Carolina (née Bush), a homemaker of Hungarian descent,[5][6] and Frederic James Oates, a tool and die designer.[5] She grew up on her parents' farm outside the town.

Her brother, Fred Jr., and sister, Lynn Ann, were born in 1943 and 1956, respectively. (Lynn Ann has autism[5] and institutionalized, and Oates has not seen her since 1971.[7]) Oates grew up in the working-class farming community of Millersport, New York,[8] and characterized hers as "a happy, close-knit and unextraordinary family for our time, place and economic status",[5] but her childhood as "a daily scramble for existence".[9] Her paternal grandmother, Blanche Woodside, lived with the family and was "very close" to Joyce.[8] After Blanche's death, Joyce learned that Blanche's father had killed himself, and Blanche had subsequently concealed her Jewish heritage; Oates eventually drew on aspects of her grandmother's life in writing the novel The Gravedigger's Daughter (2007).[8]

Violence marred the lives of Oates and her recent ancestors: Oates's mother's biological father was murdered in 1917, which led to Oates mother's informal adoption; and Oates's paternal grandmother survived, at age fourteen, an attempted murder-suicide at the hands of her own father.[10] As a child, Oates’s next-door neighbor pled guilty to charges of arson and attempted murder of his family, and was sentenced to a prison term at Attica Correctional Facility.[11]

Oates attended the same one-room school her mother had attended as a child.[5] She became interested in reading at an early age and remembers Blanche's gift of Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865) as "the great treasure of my childhood, and the most profound literary influence of my life. This was love at first sight!"[12] In her early teens, she read the work of Charlotte Brontë, Emily Brontë, Fyodor Dostoevsky, William Faulkner, Ernest Hemingway, and Henry David Thoreau, writers whose "influences remain very deep".[13]

Oates began writing at the age of 14, when Blanche gave her a typewriter.[8] Oates later transferred to several bigger, suburban schools[5] and graduated from Williamsville South High School in 1956, where she worked for her high school newspaper.[14] She was the first in her family to complete high school.[5]

As a teen, Oates also received early recognition for her writing by winning a Scholastic Art and Writing Award.[15]

University

Oates earned a scholarship to attend Syracuse University, where she joined Phi Mu. She found Syracuse to be "a very exciting place academically and intellectually", and trained herself by "writing novel after novel and always throwing them out when I completed them".[16] It was at this point that Oates began reading the work of Franz Kafka, D. H. Lawrence, Thomas Mann, and Flannery O'Connor, and she noted, "these influences are still quite strong, pervasive".[13] At the age of 19, she won the "college short story" contest sponsored by Mademoiselle. Oates was elected to Phi Beta Kappa as a junior[17] and graduated valedictorian from Syracuse University with a B.A. summa cum laude in English in 1960,[18] and received her M.A. from the University of Wisconsin–Madison in 1961. She was a Ph.D. student at Rice University but left to become a full-time writer.[19]

Evelyn Shrifte, president of the Vanguard Press, met Oates soon after Oates received her master's degree. "She was fresh out of school, and I thought she was a genius", Shrifte said. Vanguard published Oates' first book, the short-story collection By the North Gate, in 1963.[20]

Career

The Vanguard Press published Oates' first novel, With Shuddering Fall (1964), when she was 26 years old. In 1966, she published "Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?", a short story dedicated to Bob Dylan and written after listening to his song "It's All Over Now, Baby Blue".[21] The story is loosely based on the serial killer Charles Schmid, also known as "The Pied Piper of Tucson".[22] It has been anthologized many times and adapted as a 1985 film, Smooth Talk, which starred Laura Dern. In 2008, Oates said that of all her published work, she is most noted for "Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?"[23]

 
Oates in 1972, while in Canada

Another early short story, "In a Region of Ice" (The Atlantic Monthly, August 1966[24]), features a young, gifted Jewish-American student. It dramatizes his drift into protest against the world of education and the sober, established society of his parents, his depression, and eventually murder-cum-suicide. It was inspired by a real-life incident (as were several of her works) and Oates had been acquainted with the model of her protagonist. She revisited this subject in the title story of her collection Last Days: Stories (1984). "In the Region of Ice" won the first of her two O. Henry Awards.[24]

Her second novel was A Garden of Earthly Delights (1967), first of the so-called Wonderland Quartet published by Vanguard 1967–71. All were finalists for the annual National Book Award. The third novel in the series, them (1969), won the 1970 National Book Award for Fiction.[1] It is set in Detroit during a time span from the 1930s to the 1960s, most of it in black ghetto neighborhoods, and deals openly with crime, drugs, and racial and class conflicts. Again, some of the key characters and events were based on real people whom Oates had known or heard of during her years in the city. Since then she has published an average of two books a year. Frequent topics in her work include rural poverty, sexual abuse, class tensions, desire for power, female childhood and adolescence, and occasionally the 'fantastic'.[25] Violence is a constant in her work, even leading Oates to have written an essay in response to the question, "Why Is Your Writing So Violent?"[26]

In 1990, she discussed her novel, Because It Is Bitter, and Because It Is My Heart, which also deals with themes of racial tension, and described "the experience of writing [it]" as "so intense it seemed almost electric".[27] She is a fan of poet and novelist Sylvia Plath, describing Plath's sole novel The Bell Jar as a "near perfect work of art", but though Oates has often been compared to Plath, she disavows Plath's romanticism about suicide, and among her characters, she favors cunning, hardy survivors, both women and men.[citation needed] In the early 1980s, Oates began writing stories in the Gothic and horror genres; in her foray into these genres, Oates said she was "deeply influenced" by Kafka and felt "a writerly kinship" with James Joyce.[9]

In 1996, Oates published We Were the Mulvaneys, a novel following the disintegration of an American family, which became a best-seller after being selected by Oprah's Book Club in 2001.[23] We Were the Mulvaneys was eventually turned into a TV movie, which was nominated for several awards. In the 1990s and early 2000s, Oates wrote several books, mostly suspense novels, under the pen names Rosamond Smith and Lauren Kelly.[28]

Since at least the early 1980s, Oates has been rumored to be a favorite to win the Nobel Prize in Literature by oddsmakers and critics.[29] Her papers, held at Syracuse University, include 17 unpublished short stories and four unpublished or unfinished novellas. Oates has said that most of her early unpublished work was "cheerfully thrown away".[30]

One review of Oates's 1970 story collection The Wheel of Love characterized her as an author "of considerable talent" but at that time "far from being a great writer".[31]

Oates's 2006 short story "Landfill" was criticized because it drew on the death, several months earlier, of John A. Fiocco Jr., a 19-year-old New Jersey college student.[32]

In 1998, Oates received the F. Scott Fitzgerald Award for Achievement in American Literature, which is given annually to recognize outstanding achievement in American literature.[33]

Ontario Review

Oates founded The Ontario Review, a literary magazine, in 1974 in Canada, with Raymond J. Smith, her husband and fellow graduate student, who would eventually become a professor of 18th-century literature.[8] Smith served as editor of this venture, and Oates served as associate editor.[34] The magazine's mission, according to Smith, the editor, was to bridge the literary and artistic culture of the US and Canada: "We tried to do this by publishing writers and artists from both countries, as well as essays and reviews of an intercultural nature."[35] In 1978, Sylvester & Orphanos published Sentimental Education.[36]

In 1980, Oates and Smith founded Ontario Review Books, an independent publishing house. In 2004, Oates described the partnership as "a marriage of like minds – both my husband and I are so interested in literature and we read the same books; he'll be reading a book and then I'll read it – we trade and we talk about our reading at meal times ...".[5]

Teaching career

Oates taught in Beaumont, Texas, for a year, then moved to Detroit in 1962, where she began teaching at the University of Detroit. Influenced by the Vietnam war, the 1967 Detroit race riots, and a job offer, Oates moved across the river into Canada in 1968 with her husband, to a teaching position at the University of Windsor in Ontario.[5] In 1978, she moved to Princeton, New Jersey, and began teaching at Princeton University.

Among others, Oates influenced Jonathan Safran Foer, who took an introductory writing course with Oates in 1995 as a Princeton undergraduate.[37] Foer recalled later that Oates took an interest in his writing and his "most important of writerly qualities, energy,"[38] noting that she was "the first person to ever make me think I should try to write in any sort of serious way. And my life really changed after that."[38] Oates served as advisor for Foer's senior thesis, which was an early version of his novel Everything Is Illuminated (published to acclaim in 2002).[37]

Oates retired from teaching at Princeton in 2014 and was honored at a retirement party in November of that year.[39][40]

Oates has taught creative short fiction at UC Berkeley since 2016 and offers her course in spring semesters.[41]

Views

Religion

Oates was raised Catholic but as of 2007 is an atheist.[42] In an interview with Commonweal magazine, Oates stated, "I think of religion as a kind of psychological manifestation of deep powers, deep imaginative, mysterious powers which are always with us."[43]

Politics

Oates self-identifies as a liberal, and supports gun control.[44] She was a vocal critic of former US President Donald Trump and his policies, both in public and on Twitter.[45]

Oates opposed the shuttering of cultural institutions on Trump's inauguration day as a protest against the President, stating this "would only hurt artists. Rather, cultural institutions should be sanctuaries for those repelled by the inauguration."[46]

In January 2019, Oates stated that "Trump is like a figurehead, but I think what really controls everything is just a few really wealthy families or corporations."[47]

Twitter

Oates is a regular poster on Twitter with her account given to her by her publisher HarperCollins.[48] She has drawn particular criticism for the purportedly perceived Islamophobia of her tweets. Oates stated in her criticized tweet, "Where 99.3% of women report having been sexually harassed & rape is epidemic – Egypt – natural to inquire: what's the predominant religion?" She later backtracked from that statement.[49][50] Oates was also criticized for responding to a Mississippi school's pulling of To Kill a Mockingbird from its eighth grade curriculum with a tweet claiming that Mississippians do not read.[51]

Oates defended her statements on Twitter saying, "I don't consider that I really said anything that I don't feel and I think that sometimes the crowd is not necessarily correct. You know, Kierkegaard said, 'The crowd is a lie.' The sort of lynch mob mentality among some people on Twitter and they rush after somebody – they rush in this direction; they rush over here; they're kind of rushing around the landscape of the news".[44]

Productivity

Oates writes in longhand,[52] working from "8 till 1 every day, then again for two or three hours in the evening."[29] Her prolificacy has become one of her best-known attributes, although often discussed disparagingly.[29] The New York Times wrote in 1989 that Oates's "name is synonymous with productivity",[53] and in 2004, The Guardian noted that "Nearly every review of an Oates book, it seems, begins with a list [of her publication totals]".[5]

In a journal entry written in the 1970s, Oates sarcastically addressed her critics, writing, "So many books! so many! Obviously JCO has a full career behind her, if one chooses to look at it that way; many more titles and she might as well... what?... give up all hopes for a 'reputation'? […] but I work hard, and long, and as the hours roll by I seem to create more than I anticipate; more, certainly, than the literary world allows for a 'serious' writer. Yet I have more stories to tell, and more novels […] ".[54] In The New York Review of Books in 2007, Michael Dirda suggested that disparaging criticism of Oates "derives from reviewer's angst: How does one judge a new book by Oates when one is not familiar with most of the backlist? Where does one start?"[29]

Several publications have published lists of what they deem the best Joyce Carol Oates books, designed to help introduce readers to the author's daunting body of work. In a 2003 article entitled "Joyce Carol Oates for dummies", The Rocky Mountain News recommended starting with her early short stories and the novels A Garden of Earthly Delights (1967), them (1969), Wonderland (1971), Black Water (1992), and Blonde (2000).[55] In 2006, The Times listed them, On Boxing (in collaboration with photographer John Ranard) (1987), Black Water, and High Lonesome: New & Selected Stories, 1966–2006 (2006) as "The Pick of Joyce Carol Oates".[56] In 2007, Entertainment Weekly listed its Oates favorites as Wonderland, Black Water, Blonde, I'll Take You There (2002), and The Falls (2004).[57] In 2003, Oates herself said that she thinks she will be remembered for, and would most want a first-time Oates reader to read, them and Blonde, although she "could as easily have chosen a number of titles."[58]

Bibliography

Main article: Joyce Carol Oates bibliography

Oates's extensive bibliography contains poetry, plays, criticism, short stories, eleven novellas, and sixty novels, including Because It Is Bitter, and Because It Is My Heart; Black Water; Mudwoman; Carthage; The Man Without a Shadow; and A Book of American Martyrs. She has published several novels under the pseudonyms Rosamond Smith and Lauren Kelly.[59]

Awards and honors

Winner

Finalist

  • 1970: Pulitzer Prize for Fiction – The Wheel of Love and Other Stories[76]
  • 1993: Pulitzer Prize for Fiction – Black Water[77][78]
  • 1995: Pulitzer Prize for Fiction – What I Lived For[77]
  • 2001: Pulitzer Prize for Fiction – Blonde[77]
  • 2015: Pulitzer Prize for Fiction – Lovely, Dark, Deep: Stories[77]

Nominated

  • 1963: O. Henry Award – Special Award for Continuing Achievement (1970), five Second Prize (1964 to 1989), two First Prize (above) among 29 nominations[24]
  • 1968: National Book Award for Fiction – A Garden of Earthly Delights[79]
  • 1969: National Book Award for Fiction – Expensive People[80]
  • 1972: National Book Award for Fiction – Wonderland[81][82]
  • 1990: National Book Award for Fiction – Because It Is Bitter, and Because It Is My Heart[83]
  • 1992: National Book Critics Circle Award, Fiction – Black Water[68]
  • 1995: PEN/Faulkner Award – What I Lived For[84]
  • 2000: National Book Award – Blonde[85]
  • 2007: National Book Critics Circle Award, Fiction – The Gravedigger's Daughter[68]
  • 2007: National Book Critics Circle Award, Memoir/Autobiography – The Journal of Joyce Carol Oates: 1973–1982[68]
  • 2013: Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award for Black Dahlia and White Rose: Stories[86]

Personal life

 
Oates in 2013

Oates met Raymond J. Smith, a fellow graduate student, at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, and they married in 1961.[8] Smith became a professor of 18th-century literature and, later, an editor and publisher. Oates described the partnership as "a marriage of like minds..." and "a very collaborative and imaginative marriage".[5]

Smith died of complications from pneumonia on February 18, 2008, and the death affected Oates profoundly.[34] In April 2008, Oates wrote to an interviewer, "Since my husband's unexpected death, I really have very little energy [...] My marriage – my love for my husband – seems to have come first in my life, rather than my writing. Set beside his death, the future of my writing scarcely interests me at the moment."[87][88]

After six months of near suicidal grieving for Smith,[89] Oates met Charles Gross, a professor in the Psychology Department and Neuroscience Institute at Princeton, at a dinner party at her home. In early 2009, Oates and Gross were married.[90][91] On April 13, 2019, Oates announced via Twitter that Gross had died at the age of 83.[92]

As a diarist, Oates began keeping a detailed journal in 1973, documenting her personal and literary life; it eventually grew to "more than 4,000 single-spaced typewritten pages".[93] In 2008, Oates said she had "moved away from keeping a formal journal" and instead preserved copies of her e-mails.[87]

As of 1999, Oates remained devoted to running, of which she has written, "Ideally, the runner who's a writer is running through the land- and cityscapes of her fiction, like a ghost in a real setting".[94] While running, Oates mentally envisions scenes in her novels and works out structural problems in already-written drafts; she formulated the germ of her novel You Must Remember This (1987) while running, when she "glanced up and saw the ruins of a railroad bridge", which reminded her of "a mythical upstate New York city in the right place".[94]

Oates was a member of the board of trustees of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation from 1997 to 2016.[95] She is an honorary member of the Simpson Literary Project, which annually awards the $50,000 Simpson/Joyce Carol Oates Literary Prize to a mid-career writer. She has served as the Project's artist-in-residence several times.[96]

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joyce, carol, oates, born, june, 1938, american, writer, oates, published, first, book, 1963, since, published, novels, number, plays, novellas, many, volumes, short, stories, poetry, fiction, novels, black, water, 1992, what, lived, 1994, blonde, 2000, short,. Joyce Carol Oates born June 16 1938 is an American writer Oates published her first book in 1963 and has since published 58 novels a number of plays and novellas and many volumes of short stories poetry and non fiction Her novels Black Water 1992 What I Lived For 1994 and Blonde 2000 and her short story collections The Wheel of Love 1970 and Lovely Dark Deep Stories 2014 were each finalists for the Pulitzer Prize She has won many awards for her writing including the National Book Award 1 for her novel them 1969 two O Henry Awards the National Humanities Medal and the Jerusalem Prize 2019 Joyce Carol OatesOates in 2014Born 1938 06 16 June 16 1938 age 84 Lockport New York U S OccupationNovelist short story writer playwright poet literary critic professor editorEducationSyracuse University BA University of Wisconsin Madison MA Rice UniversityPeriod1963 presentNotable awardsO Henry Award 1967 National Book Award 1970 O Henry Award 1973 National Humanities Medal 2010 Stone Award for Lifetime Literary Achievement 2012 Jerusalem Prize 2019 SpousesRaymond J Smith m 1961 died 2008 wbr Charles Gross m 2009 died 2019 wbr Oates taught at Princeton University from 1978 to 2014 and is the Roger S Berlind 52 Professor Emerita in the Humanities with the Program in Creative Writing 2 Since 2016 she has been a visiting professor at the University of California Berkeley where she teaches short fiction in the spring semesters 3 Oates was elected to the American Philosophical Society in 2016 4 Contents 1 Early life and education 2 University 3 Career 3 1 Ontario Review 3 2 Teaching career 4 Views 4 1 Religion 4 2 Politics 4 3 Twitter 5 Productivity 6 Bibliography 7 Awards and honors 7 1 Winner 7 2 Finalist 7 3 Nominated 8 Personal life 9 References 10 External linksEarly life and education EditOates was born in Lockport New York the eldest of three children of Carolina nee Bush a homemaker of Hungarian descent 5 6 and Frederic James Oates a tool and die designer 5 She grew up on her parents farm outside the town Her brother Fred Jr and sister Lynn Ann were born in 1943 and 1956 respectively Lynn Ann has autism 5 and institutionalized and Oates has not seen her since 1971 7 Oates grew up in the working class farming community of Millersport New York 8 and characterized hers as a happy close knit and unextraordinary family for our time place and economic status 5 but her childhood as a daily scramble for existence 9 Her paternal grandmother Blanche Woodside lived with the family and was very close to Joyce 8 After Blanche s death Joyce learned that Blanche s father had killed himself and Blanche had subsequently concealed her Jewish heritage Oates eventually drew on aspects of her grandmother s life in writing the novel The Gravedigger s Daughter 2007 8 Violence marred the lives of Oates and her recent ancestors Oates s mother s biological father was murdered in 1917 which led to Oates mother s informal adoption and Oates s paternal grandmother survived at age fourteen an attempted murder suicide at the hands of her own father 10 As a child Oates s next door neighbor pled guilty to charges of arson and attempted murder of his family and was sentenced to a prison term at Attica Correctional Facility 11 Oates attended the same one room school her mother had attended as a child 5 She became interested in reading at an early age and remembers Blanche s gift of Lewis Carroll s Alice s Adventures in Wonderland 1865 as the great treasure of my childhood and the most profound literary influence of my life This was love at first sight 12 In her early teens she read the work of Charlotte Bronte Emily Bronte Fyodor Dostoevsky William Faulkner Ernest Hemingway and Henry David Thoreau writers whose influences remain very deep 13 Oates began writing at the age of 14 when Blanche gave her a typewriter 8 Oates later transferred to several bigger suburban schools 5 and graduated from Williamsville South High School in 1956 where she worked for her high school newspaper 14 She was the first in her family to complete high school 5 As a teen Oates also received early recognition for her writing by winning a Scholastic Art and Writing Award 15 University EditOates earned a scholarship to attend Syracuse University where she joined Phi Mu She found Syracuse to be a very exciting place academically and intellectually and trained herself by writing novel after novel and always throwing them out when I completed them 16 It was at this point that Oates began reading the work of Franz Kafka D H Lawrence Thomas Mann and Flannery O Connor and she noted these influences are still quite strong pervasive 13 At the age of 19 she won the college short story contest sponsored by Mademoiselle Oates was elected to Phi Beta Kappa as a junior 17 and graduated valedictorian from Syracuse University with a B A summa cum laude in English in 1960 18 and received her M A from the University of Wisconsin Madison in 1961 She was a Ph D student at Rice University but left to become a full time writer 19 Evelyn Shrifte president of the Vanguard Press met Oates soon after Oates received her master s degree She was fresh out of school and I thought she was a genius Shrifte said Vanguard published Oates first book the short story collection By the North Gate in 1963 20 Career EditThe Vanguard Press published Oates first novel With Shuddering Fall 1964 when she was 26 years old In 1966 she published Where Are You Going Where Have You Been a short story dedicated to Bob Dylan and written after listening to his song It s All Over Now Baby Blue 21 The story is loosely based on the serial killer Charles Schmid also known as The Pied Piper of Tucson 22 It has been anthologized many times and adapted as a 1985 film Smooth Talk which starred Laura Dern In 2008 Oates said that of all her published work she is most noted for Where Are You Going Where Have You Been 23 Oates in 1972 while in Canada Another early short story In a Region of Ice The Atlantic Monthly August 1966 24 features a young gifted Jewish American student It dramatizes his drift into protest against the world of education and the sober established society of his parents his depression and eventually murder cum suicide It was inspired by a real life incident as were several of her works and Oates had been acquainted with the model of her protagonist She revisited this subject in the title story of her collection Last Days Stories 1984 In the Region of Ice won the first of her two O Henry Awards 24 Her second novel was A Garden of Earthly Delights 1967 first of the so called Wonderland Quartet published by Vanguard 1967 71 All were finalists for the annual National Book Award The third novel in the series them 1969 won the 1970 National Book Award for Fiction 1 It is set in Detroit during a time span from the 1930s to the 1960s most of it in black ghetto neighborhoods and deals openly with crime drugs and racial and class conflicts Again some of the key characters and events were based on real people whom Oates had known or heard of during her years in the city Since then she has published an average of two books a year Frequent topics in her work include rural poverty sexual abuse class tensions desire for power female childhood and adolescence and occasionally the fantastic 25 Violence is a constant in her work even leading Oates to have written an essay in response to the question Why Is Your Writing So Violent 26 In 1990 she discussed her novel Because It Is Bitter and Because It Is My Heart which also deals with themes of racial tension and described the experience of writing it as so intense it seemed almost electric 27 She is a fan of poet and novelist Sylvia Plath describing Plath s sole novel The Bell Jar as a near perfect work of art but though Oates has often been compared to Plath she disavows Plath s romanticism about suicide and among her characters she favors cunning hardy survivors both women and men citation needed In the early 1980s Oates began writing stories in the Gothic and horror genres in her foray into these genres Oates said she was deeply influenced by Kafka and felt a writerly kinship with James Joyce 9 In 1996 Oates published We Were the Mulvaneys a novel following the disintegration of an American family which became a best seller after being selected by Oprah s Book Club in 2001 23 We Were the Mulvaneys was eventually turned into a TV movie which was nominated for several awards In the 1990s and early 2000s Oates wrote several books mostly suspense novels under the pen names Rosamond Smith and Lauren Kelly 28 Since at least the early 1980s Oates has been rumored to be a favorite to win the Nobel Prize in Literature by oddsmakers and critics 29 Her papers held at Syracuse University include 17 unpublished short stories and four unpublished or unfinished novellas Oates has said that most of her early unpublished work was cheerfully thrown away 30 One review of Oates s 1970 story collection The Wheel of Love characterized her as an author of considerable talent but at that time far from being a great writer 31 Oates s 2006 short story Landfill was criticized because it drew on the death several months earlier of John A Fiocco Jr a 19 year old New Jersey college student 32 In 1998 Oates received the F Scott Fitzgerald Award for Achievement in American Literature which is given annually to recognize outstanding achievement in American literature 33 Ontario Review Edit Oates founded The Ontario Review a literary magazine in 1974 in Canada with Raymond J Smith her husband and fellow graduate student who would eventually become a professor of 18th century literature 8 Smith served as editor of this venture and Oates served as associate editor 34 The magazine s mission according to Smith the editor was to bridge the literary and artistic culture of the US and Canada We tried to do this by publishing writers and artists from both countries as well as essays and reviews of an intercultural nature 35 In 1978 Sylvester amp Orphanos published Sentimental Education 36 In 1980 Oates and Smith founded Ontario Review Books an independent publishing house In 2004 Oates described the partnership as a marriage of like minds both my husband and I are so interested in literature and we read the same books he ll be reading a book and then I ll read it we trade and we talk about our reading at meal times 5 Teaching career Edit Oates taught in Beaumont Texas for a year then moved to Detroit in 1962 where she began teaching at the University of Detroit Influenced by the Vietnam war the 1967 Detroit race riots and a job offer Oates moved across the river into Canada in 1968 with her husband to a teaching position at the University of Windsor in Ontario 5 In 1978 she moved to Princeton New Jersey and began teaching at Princeton University Among others Oates influenced Jonathan Safran Foer who took an introductory writing course with Oates in 1995 as a Princeton undergraduate 37 Foer recalled later that Oates took an interest in his writing and his most important of writerly qualities energy 38 noting that she was the first person to ever make me think I should try to write in any sort of serious way And my life really changed after that 38 Oates served as advisor for Foer s senior thesis which was an early version of his novel Everything Is Illuminated published to acclaim in 2002 37 Oates retired from teaching at Princeton in 2014 and was honored at a retirement party in November of that year 39 40 Oates has taught creative short fiction at UC Berkeley since 2016 and offers her course in spring semesters 41 Views EditReligion Edit Oates was raised Catholic but as of 2007 is an atheist 42 In an interview with Commonweal magazine Oates stated I think of religion as a kind of psychological manifestation of deep powers deep imaginative mysterious powers which are always with us 43 Politics Edit Oates self identifies as a liberal and supports gun control 44 She was a vocal critic of former US President Donald Trump and his policies both in public and on Twitter 45 Oates opposed the shuttering of cultural institutions on Trump s inauguration day as a protest against the President stating this would only hurt artists Rather cultural institutions should be sanctuaries for those repelled by the inauguration 46 In January 2019 Oates stated that Trump is like a figurehead but I think what really controls everything is just a few really wealthy families or corporations 47 Twitter Edit Oates is a regular poster on Twitter with her account given to her by her publisher HarperCollins 48 She has drawn particular criticism for the purportedly perceived Islamophobia of her tweets Oates stated in her criticized tweet Where 99 3 of women report having been sexually harassed amp rape is epidemic Egypt natural to inquire what s the predominant religion She later backtracked from that statement 49 50 Oates was also criticized for responding to a Mississippi school s pulling of To Kill a Mockingbird from its eighth grade curriculum with a tweet claiming that Mississippians do not read 51 Oates defended her statements on Twitter saying I don t consider that I really said anything that I don t feel and I think that sometimes the crowd is not necessarily correct You know Kierkegaard said The crowd is a lie The sort of lynch mob mentality among some people on Twitter and they rush after somebody they rush in this direction they rush over here they re kind of rushing around the landscape of the news 44 Productivity EditOates writes in longhand 52 working from 8 till 1 every day then again for two or three hours in the evening 29 Her prolificacy has become one of her best known attributes although often discussed disparagingly 29 The New York Times wrote in 1989 that Oates s name is synonymous with productivity 53 and in 2004 The Guardian noted that Nearly every review of an Oates book it seems begins with a list of her publication totals 5 In a journal entry written in the 1970s Oates sarcastically addressed her critics writing So many books so many Obviously JCO has a full career behind her if one chooses to look at it that way many more titles and she might as well what give up all hopes for a reputation but I work hard and long and as the hours roll by I seem to create more than I anticipate more certainly than the literary world allows for a serious writer Yet I have more stories to tell and more novels 54 In The New York Review of Books in 2007 Michael Dirda suggested that disparaging criticism of Oates derives from reviewer s angst How does one judge a new book by Oates when one is not familiar with most of the backlist Where does one start 29 Several publications have published lists of what they deem the best Joyce Carol Oates books designed to help introduce readers to the author s daunting body of work In a 2003 article entitled Joyce Carol Oates for dummies The Rocky Mountain News recommended starting with her early short stories and the novels A Garden of Earthly Delights 1967 them 1969 Wonderland 1971 Black Water 1992 and Blonde 2000 55 In 2006 The Times listed them On Boxing in collaboration with photographer John Ranard 1987 Black Water and High Lonesome New amp Selected Stories 1966 2006 2006 as The Pick of Joyce Carol Oates 56 In 2007 Entertainment Weekly listed its Oates favorites as Wonderland Black Water Blonde I ll Take You There 2002 and The Falls 2004 57 In 2003 Oates herself said that she thinks she will be remembered for and would most want a first time Oates reader to read them and Blonde although she could as easily have chosen a number of titles 58 Bibliography EditMain article Joyce Carol Oates bibliography Oates s extensive bibliography contains poetry plays criticism short stories eleven novellas and sixty novels including Because It Is Bitter and Because It Is My Heart Black Water Mudwoman Carthage The Man Without a Shadow and A Book of American Martyrs She has published several novels under the pseudonyms Rosamond Smith and Lauren Kelly 59 Awards and honors EditWinner Edit 1955 1956 Scholastic Art amp Writing Award 1967 O Henry Award In the Region of Ice 24 1968 M L Rosenthal Award National Institute of Arts and Letters A Garden of Earthly Delights 1970 National Book Award for Fiction them 1 1973 O Henry Award The Dead 24 1988 St Louis Literary Award from the Saint Louis University Library Associates 60 61 1990 Rea Award for the Short Story 1996 Bram Stoker Award for Novel Zombie 1996 PEN Malamud Award for Excellence in the Art of the Short Story 1997 Golden Plate Award American Academy of Achievement 62 2002 Peggy V Helmerich Distinguished Author Award 63 2003 Kenyon Review Award for Literary Achievement The Kenyon Review 64 2005 Prix Femina Etranger The Falls 2006 Chicago Tribune Literary Prize 65 Chicago Tribune 2006 Honorary Doctor of Humane Letters Mount Holyoke College 66 2007 Humanist of the Year American Humanist Association 67 2009 Ivan Sandrof Award for Lifetime Achievement NBCC 68 69 2010 National Humanities Medal 70 2010 Fernanda Pivano Award 2011 Honorary Doctor of Arts University of Pennsylvania 71 2011 World Fantasy Award for Best Short Fiction Fossil Figures 72 2011 Bram Stoker Award for Best Fiction Collection The Corn Maiden and Other Nightmares 73 2012 Stone Award for Lifetime Literary Achievement Oregon State University 2012 Norman Mailer Prize Lifetime Achievement 74 2012 Bram Stoker Award for Best Fiction Collection Black Dahlia and White Rose Stories 75 2019 Jerusalem Prize Lifetime Achievement 2020 Prix mondial Cino Del Duca work as a message of modern humanism Finalist Edit 1970 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction The Wheel of Love and Other Stories 76 1993 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction Black Water 77 78 1995 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction What I Lived For 77 2001 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction Blonde 77 2015 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction Lovely Dark Deep Stories 77 Nominated Edit 1963 O Henry Award Special Award for Continuing Achievement 1970 five Second Prize 1964 to 1989 two First Prize above among 29 nominations 24 1968 National Book Award for Fiction A Garden of Earthly Delights 79 1969 National Book Award for Fiction Expensive People 80 1972 National Book Award for Fiction Wonderland 81 82 1990 National Book Award for Fiction Because It Is Bitter and Because It Is My Heart 83 1992 National Book Critics Circle Award Fiction Black Water 68 1995 PEN Faulkner Award What I Lived For 84 2000 National Book Award Blonde 85 2007 National Book Critics Circle Award Fiction The Gravedigger s Daughter 68 2007 National Book Critics Circle Award Memoir Autobiography The Journal of Joyce Carol Oates 1973 1982 68 2013 Frank O Connor International Short Story Award for Black Dahlia and White Rose Stories 86 Personal life Edit Oates in 2013 Oates met Raymond J Smith a fellow graduate student at the University of Wisconsin Madison and they married in 1961 8 Smith became a professor of 18th century literature and later an editor and publisher Oates described the partnership as a marriage of like minds and a very collaborative and imaginative marriage 5 Smith died of complications from pneumonia on February 18 2008 and the death affected Oates profoundly 34 In April 2008 Oates wrote to an interviewer Since my husband s unexpected death I really have very little energy My marriage my love for my husband seems to have come first in my life rather than my writing Set beside his death the future of my writing scarcely interests me at the moment 87 88 After six months of near suicidal grieving for Smith 89 Oates met Charles Gross a professor in the Psychology Department and Neuroscience Institute at Princeton at a dinner party at her home In early 2009 Oates and Gross were married 90 91 On April 13 2019 Oates announced via Twitter that Gross had died at the age of 83 92 As a diarist Oates began keeping a detailed journal in 1973 documenting her personal and literary life it eventually grew to more than 4 000 single spaced typewritten pages 93 In 2008 Oates said she had moved away from keeping a formal journal and instead preserved copies of her e mails 87 As of 1999 Oates remained devoted to running of which she has written Ideally the runner who s a writer is running through the land and cityscapes of her fiction like a ghost in a real setting 94 While running Oates mentally envisions scenes in her novels and works out structural problems in already written drafts she formulated the germ of her novel You Must Remember This 1987 while running when she glanced up and saw the ruins of a railroad bridge which reminded her of a mythical upstate New York city in the right place 94 Oates was a member of the board of trustees of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation from 1997 to 2016 95 She is an honorary member of the Simpson Literary Project which annually awards the 50 000 Simpson Joyce Carol Oates Literary Prize to a mid career writer She has served as the Project s artist in residence several times 96 References Edit a b c National Book Awards 1970 National Book Foundation NBF Retrieved April 13 2012 With acceptance speech by Oates and essay by Harold Augenbraum from the Awards 60 year anniversary blog The Program in Creative Writing Princeton edu Retrieved June 14 2011 Berkeley English Joyce Carol Oates Courses english berkeley edu Retrieved December 14 2019 APS Member History search amphilsoc org Retrieved February 18 2021 a b c d e f g h i j k Edemariam Aida September 4 2004 The new Monroe doctrine The Guardian Joyce Carol Oates American author Encyclopedia Britannica Retrieved January 3 2021 Oates Joyce Carol September 8 2015 The Lost Sister An Elegy The Lost Landscape A Writer s Coming of Age Ecco published 2015 pp 201 220 ISBN 978 0 06 240867 9 p 220 I have not seen my afflicted sister since 1971 when she was fifteen years old a b c d e f Reese Jennifer July 13 2007 Joyce Carol Oates gets personal Entertainment Weekly permanent dead link a b Author Focus Joyce Carol Oates Darkecho com Archived from the original on June 10 2011 Retrieved June 14 2011 Oates Joyce Carol September 8 2015 After Black Rock The Lost Landscape A Writer s Coming of Age Ecco published 2015 pp 61 67 ISBN 978 0 06 240867 9 Oates Joyce Carol September 8 2015 They All Just Went Away The Lost Landscape A Writer s Coming of Age Ecco published 2015 pp 85 108 ISBN 978 0 06 240867 9 Oates Joyce Carol 2003 The Faith of a Writer p 14 ISBN 9780060565534 a b Milazzo Lee ed 1989 Conversations with Joyce Carol Oates University Press of Mississippi p 143 Kwiatkowski Jane September 29 1999 The Williamsville that Joyce Carol Oates Knew The Buffalo News Buffalo AMERICA S MOST CREATIVE TEENS NAMED AS NATIONAL 2016 SCHOLASTIC ART amp WRITING AWARDS RECIPIENTS Scholastic Inc Newsroom accessed May 22 2018 Phillips Robert Fall Winter 1978 The Art of Fiction No 72 Joyce Carol Oates interview The Paris Review Vol 74 Kappa Phi Beta May 15 2019 We re excited to see so many PBKMembers on this list including Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg David McCullough Barbara Kingsolver JoyceCarolOates Julia Alvarez HenryLouisGates and Penn President Amy Gutmann https twitter com librarycongress status 1128344374251749376 Robson Leo June 29 2020 The Unruly Genius of Joyce Carol Oates The New Yorker Retrieved October 6 2020 Joyce Carol Oates Where are you going Where have you been April 27 2010 Retrieved May 22 2018 Woo Elaine September 8 1999 Obituaries Evelyn Shrifte Longtime Head of Vanguard Press Los Angeles Times Dedication Of Joyce Carol Oates Short Story To Dylan Retrieved May 22 2018 Charles Schmid The Pied Piper of Tucson CourtTV Crime Library Archived from the original on February 10 2015 Retrieved May 22 2018 a b Truman Cheryl Author Joyce Carol Oates is always at her finest Archived October 1 2009 at the Wayback Machine reprint Lexington Herald Leader 2008 Retrieved on October 29 2008 a b c d e Past Winners List O The PEN O Henry Prize Stories website Random 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Personal History A Widow s Story The Last Week of a Long Marriage The New Yorker Retrieved September 14 2016 Review by Janet Todd 19 March 2011 TheGuardian com Married Crossingtheborder wordpress com May 4 2009 Retrieved June 14 2011 Oates Joyce Carol 2011 A Widow s Story New York Harper Collins pp 414 415 ISBN 978 0 06 201553 2 JoyceCarolOates April 13 2019 Charlie Gross February 29 1936 April 13 2019 Brilliant beautiful beloved husband Tweet via Twitter Campbell James The Oates Diaries The New York Times October 7 2007 Retrieved on October 30 2008 a b Oates Joyce Carol Writers on Writing To Invigorate Literary Mind Start Moving Literary Feet The New York Times July 18 1999 Retrieved on October 30 2008 John Simon Guggenheim Foundation Joyce Carol Oates www gf org Retrieved June 14 2017 Kosman Joshia May 12 2020 Bay Area author and psychiatrist Daniel Mason wins 50 000 Joyce Carol Oates Prize San Francisco ChronicleExternal links Edit Wikiquote has quotations related to Joyce Carol 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