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Because It Is Bitter, and Because It Is My Heart by Joyce Carol Oates

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Name: Joyce Carol Oates
Variant Name: Rosamond Smith
Birth Date: June 16, 1938
Place of Birth: Lockport, New York, United States
Nationality: American
Gender: Female
Occupations: writer, poet

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Biography of Joyce Carol Oates
15724 words, approx. 52.4 pages
[This entry was updated by Sarah Catlin Barnhart (University of South Carolina) from the update by Nancy Barendse (Charleston Southern University) in the Concise Dictionary of American Literary Biography, volume 6, pp. 216-241, of the entries by Michael...
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Biography of Joyce Carol Oates
6837 words, approx. 22.8 pages
Joyce Carol Oates was born in the small town of Lockport, New York, on 16 June 1938 and grew up in a rural setting nearby in Erie County. Together with her brother, Frederic, and sister, Lynn Ann, she was raised as a Roman Catholic in a home free from th...
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Biography of Joyce Carol Oates
5835 words, approx. 19.5 pages
In 1990 Joyce Carol Oates won both the Elmer Holmes Bobst Lifetime Achievement Award in Fiction and the Rea Award for the Short Story, a twenty-five-thousand-dollar prize that honors living American writers "who have made significant contributions to the...
 


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Because It Is Bitter and Because It Is My Heart. (book reviews)
07/02/1990: 1,451 words, approx. 5 pages
HENRY LOUIS GATES JR. BECAUSE IT IS BITTER, AND BECAUSE IT IS MY HEART. By Joyce Carol Oates. E.P Dutton. 405 pp. $19.95. "It seems to me," Joyce Carol Oates wrote in New Heaven New Earth, "that the great works of literature...
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Publishers Weekly
Because It Is Bitter, and Because It Is My Heart. (book reviews)
02/23/1990: 174 words, approx. 1 pages
BECAUSE IT IS BETTER, AND BECAUSE IT IS MY HEART Murder galvanizes an industrial town in upstate New York when a husky red-haired corpse is fished from a polluted river in 1956. With sure strokes, Oates (American Appetites) delineates the racial hatreds leading...
 


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