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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
15,724 words, approx. 52 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...
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Biography of Joyce Carol Oates
6,837 words, approx. 23 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...
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Biography of Joyce Carol Oates
5,835 words, approx. 20 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...



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Joyce Carol Oates Quotes
1,272 words, approx. 4 pages
 Joyce Carol Oates (born June 16 , 1938 ) is an American author and the Roger S. Berlind Professor in the Humanities with the Program in Creative Writing at Princeton University, where she has taught since 1978. Contents 1 Sourced 1.1 On Boxing (1987)...


Encyclopedia and Summary Information

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Oates, Joyce Carol (1938—) Summary
167 words, approx. 1 pages Undoubtedly one of the most prolific and versatile authors of the twentieth century, Joyce Carol Oates writes short stories, novels, plays, poetry, screenplays, and essays. She also writes psychological thrillers under the pseudonym Rosamond Smith. Her...
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Oates, Joyce Carol Summary
19,716 words, approx. 66 pages One of America's most prolific and versatile contemporary writers, Oates began her literary career in 1963. Since then she has published more than twenty-five novels; hundreds of short stories in both collections and anthologies; nearly a dozen...
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Joyce Carol Oates - (1938 -) Summary
16,576 words, approx. 55 pages Joyce Carol Oates - (1938 -) (Also wrote under the pseudonym Rosamond Smith) American novelist, short story writer, essayist, critic, playwright, author of children's books, nonfiction writer, and poet. Considered one of the most prolific and...
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Joyce Carol Oates Information
2,238 words, approx. 8 pages
 Joyce Carol Oates (born June 16 1938) is an American author and the Roger S. Berlind '52 Professor in the Humanities with the Program in Creative Writing at Princeton University, where she has taught since 1978.[1] She serves as associate editor for the...




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Short stories honored by Updike, others
4/12/2007: 552 words, approx. 2 pages Cynthia Ozick stood before a full house of literary fans, her white hair shining as she assessed an art form that could be likened to an old, but vital patriarch _ rich, historic and, the author feared, increasingly neglected.The short story."In serious mainstream magazines nowadays,...
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Tech gunman bought ammo clips on eBay
4/21/2007: 613 words, approx. 2 pages The Virginia Tech killer went to eBay to buy ammunition clips for one of the types of guns he used in the rampage, a spokesman for the auction site confirmed Saturday.Using the handle Blazers5505, Seung-Hui Cho bought two 10-round magazines for the Walther P22 _...
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Today in history - June 16
6/16/2007: 517 words, approx. 2 pages Today is Saturday, June 16, the 167th day of 2007. There are 198 days left in the year.Today's Highlight in History:On June 16, 1858, in a speech in Springfield, Ill., Senate candidate Abraham Lincoln said the slavery issue had to be resolved, declaring, "A house...
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Mailer's Archive Opens in Texas
1/4/2008: 421 words, approx. 1 pages It has been almost two months since Norman Mailer died. "Before that he lived a big, loud life, which he spent asking questions, accumulating bruises and setting all kinds of people’s hair on fire," according to the Observer's Leon Neyfakh. Boxes full of papers of...



Literary Criticism
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Critical Essay by Frank R. Cunningham
8,889 words, approx. 30 pages
 In the following essay, Cunningham examines the themes of self-enclosure and identity in Oates's first five volumes of short stories.
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Critical Essay by Diane Long Hoeveler
8,184 words, approx. 27 pages
 In the following essay, Hoeveler considers the relationship between “The Accursed Inhabitants of the House of Bly” and Henry James's “The Turn of the Screw.”
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Featured Essays
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Arnold as the Devil in "Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?"
744 words, approx. 3 pages
 In "Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?" by Joyce Carol Oates, the character of Arnold Friend represents Satan. That's because Arnold takes on the characteristics of Satan, disguising himself as something he is not and that his ultimate goal is to harm Connie.


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