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Born June 16, 1938, Lockport, New York, USA - American writer, novelist, poetess, playwright, critic and actress.
Her mother, Caroline Oates, of Hungarian descent, was a housewife, and her father, Frederic Oates, was a handyman.
She grew up in a Catholic environment, but calls herself an atheist. As a child, Joyce was very close to her grandmother. After her death, she learned that her grandmother carefully concealed her Jewish origin. This was later reflected in the 2007 novel The Gravedigger's Daughter.
Joyce has a brother, Fred, Jr., and an autistic sister, Lynn-Ann. From childhood, Oates was very fond of reading and already in her early teens read Dostoevsky, Faulkner, Hemingway and the Bronte sisters. She began writing at 14. In 1960 she graduated from Siracuse University.
In 1962 she received her Master of Arts degree from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. After that, Oates went to graduate school at Rice University, but then decided to devote herself entirely to a writing rather than a scientific career.
In 1962, she taught in Beaumont, Texas. From 1962 to 1968, Oates taught at the University of Detroit, then from 1968 to 1978 taught English at the University of Windsor in Canada. For Oates, this decade has been extraordinarily rewarding, managing to publish several new books every year, while still combining writing with a full academic career.
In 1978, Oates and her husband moved to Princeton, where Joyce began teaching writing at Princeton University. In 1995, Oates trained Jonathan Safran Foer, whose work she found interesting.
Oates published her first book in 1963 and has since published more than fifty novels, a large number of short stories, poems and non-fiction. Oates has also won many literary awards, including the National Book Award for the novel "them," two O. Henry Awards, and the National Humanities Medal. Oates' novels "Black Water" (1992), "What I Lived For" (1994), "Blonde" (2000), as well as several collections of her stories, reached the final of the Pulitzer Prize ( Pulitzer Prize). Oates also wrote under the pseudonyms 'Rosamund Smith' and 'Lauren Kelly'.
