Joyce Carol Oates Pronunciation: Author, Journalist

NAME: Joyce Carol Oates

OCCUPATION: Author, Journalist

BIRTH DATE: June 16, 1938 (age 77)

EDUCATION: Syracuse University, University of Wisconsin

PLACE OF BIRTH :Lockport, New York

AKA: Rosamond Smith, Lauren Kelly

FULL NAME:Joyce Carol Oates

ZODIAC SIGN:Gemini

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Joyce Carol Oates was born in Lockport, New York, on June 16, 1938. She grew up on a farm where she developed a love for literature and writing. She received her first typewriter as a teen and received passionate support from her parents over her choice of a career as a writer she wrote and wrote through high school and college.

She then completed her master's at the University of Wisconsin in 1961, the same year in which she get married to an English student Raymond Smith. Oates then started teaching at the University of Detroit, and by the end of the sixties she moved to work at the University of Windsor in Canada. She and her husband worked as co-editors on the literary publication The Ontario Review. By the late 1970s.Oates took a teaching position at Princeton University.

Oates has quite the reputation as a highly prolific scribe, written dozens of books that include novels, shorts story collections, young adult fiction, plays, poetry and essays. Oates has won many awards over the course of her career, including the Prix Femina Etranger and the Pushcart Prize.

Her first published book was the 1963 story collection By the North Gate, followed by her debut novel With Shuddering Fall in