Joyce Carol Oates

Joyce Carol Oates (Born 1938) is an American writer. Her works include A Garden of Earthly Delights (1967), Expensive People (1968), them (1969), Bellefleur (1980), On Boxing (1987), You Must Remember This (1988), American Appetites (1989), and Black Water (1992). She won a National Book Award for them.[1]

## Life and Works[edit]

Oates was born June 16, 1938 in Lockport, New York.[2] She enjoyed telling dark stories from an early age, and was rejected by a publisher at age 15 for her first novel, about a drug dealer's rehab.[3] She attended Syracuse University and published her first book, a short story collection called By the North Gate, in 1963.[4] Since then, she has been very prolific as a volume writer and writers profane and explicit works.[5] She wrote many, many novels, including A Garden of Earthly Delights, them, Do with Me What You Will (1973), Foxfire: Confessions of a Girl Gang (1993), Zombie (1995), We Were the Mulvaneys (1996), Broke Heart Blues (1999), The Falls (2004), My Sister, My Love: The Intimate Story of Skyler Rampike (2008), Mudwoman (2012), Daddy Love (2013), Carthage (2014), Jack of Spades (2015), and The Man Without a Shadow (2016).[6]

In her later works, she focused on race and violence, as in Black Water.[7] Her most recent novel, A Book of American Martyrs (1999), begins with the murder of an abortion doctor by a man calling himself a soldier of Christ.[8]

## See also[edit]

* James Joyce

## References[edit]

1. ↑ The New York Public Library Student's Desk Reference. Prentice Hall: New York, 1991.
2. ↑ http://www.biography.com/people/joyce-carol-oates-9426174
3. ↑ http://biography.yourdictionary.com/joyce-carol-oates
4. ↑ http://www.famousauthors.org/joyce-carol-oates
5. ↑ http://www.encyclopedia.com/people/literature-and-arts/american-literature-biographies/joyce-carol-oates
6. ↑ "Oates, Joyce Carol." Encyclopedia Britannica.
7. ↑ http://www.notablebiographies.com/Ni-Pe/Oates-Joyce-Carol.html
8. ↑ https://www.npr.org/2017/02/07/513905163/joyce-carol-oates-new-novel-begins-with-an-abortion-doctors-murder