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How I Contemplated the World from the Detroit House of Correction and Began My Life Over Again by Joyce Carol Oates

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Author Biography

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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Newsweek
I Know That Only Cowards Can Be Brave: I used to fear leaving the house. Now I trek around the world. How adventure travel changed my life.(My Turn)
09/06/1999: 872 words, approx. 3 pages
You're so brave," friends say when I show them my photographs from my recent trek to remote Zaskar and Ladakh, high on the Tibetan Plateau. Looking at the photographs, I can't believe it myself. Did I really hike 300 miles across glaciers, ice...
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The Mail on Sunday (London, England)
HOW I FOUND MY PRECIOUS DAUGHTER; As Madonna starts out on life with a child adopted from abroad, Kate Hadley knows something of what she can expect - for it's a journey she began in Guatemala 13 years ago.
12/10/2006: 1,816 words, approx. 6 pages
Byline: KATE HADLEY At half past three on a February afternoon my office telephone rang. 'Can I call you back?' I said. I was in the middle of a meeting. 'I don't think so,' came the low voice with a...
 


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