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Joyce Carol Oates
Birth at
16 June 1938
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Born in Lockport, New York. As a child, she loved to compose and tell all sorts of stories; not yet able to write, she drew her own compositions. At the age of fourteen, she received a typewriter as a gift for her birthday and began, speaking it in her own words, “to build novel after novel.” Success came quickly: while studying at the University of Syracuse Oates won the competition of the magazine “Mademoiselle” for the best work written by a woman. After graduating from the first university,
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Born in Lockport, New York. As a child, she loved to compose and tell all sorts of stories; not yet able to write, she drew her own compositions. At the age of fourteen, she received a typewriter as a gift for her birthday and began, speaking it in her own words, “to build novel after novel.”
Success came quickly: while studying at the University of Syracuse Oates won the competition of the magazine “Mademoiselle” for the best work written by a woman. After graduating from the first university, she entered the University of Wisconsin, where she met her future husband; in 1962 they settled in Detroit, the “microcosm of wild American reality”, where Oates’ early novels were written.
1968-1978. Oates taught at the University of Windsor, Canada, across the Detroit River. Zsa also published a fair number of novels, novels and short stories, releasing two or three books a year. Answering a question about that. As she succeeds in this, she usually replied (and still answers): I live the most modest life imaginable; everything is on schedule, no exoticism, and therefore no need to organize my time.
In 1978, Oates and her husband moved to Princeton, where Joyce began working at Princeton University, and her husband opened his own publishing house and began publishing the literary magazine Ontario Review.
In 1970, Joyce Carol Oates was awarded the National Book Award for her novel They.