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We Were the Mulvaneys 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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We Were the Mulvaneys Information
498 words, approx. 2 pages
We Were the Mulvaneys is a novel written by Joyce Carol Oates and was published in 1996. We Were the Mulvaneys was featured in Oprah's Book Club in 2001. The Mulvaneys, a family living in the small, rural town of Mt. Ephraim, NY during the later part of...


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The Nation
We Were the Mulvaneys. (book reviews)
10/28/1996: 1,420 words, approx. 5 pages
By Joyce Carol Oates. Dutton. 454 pp. $24.95 To be without a family in America is to be deprived not just of that family, but of an entire arsenal of allusive material as cohesive as algae covering a pond. We Were the...
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Multichannel News
TV translation bumpy for Oates' Mulvaneys. (Programming Reviews).(Joyce Carol Oates's We Were the Mulvaneys)(Brief Article)
02/25/2002: 428 words, approx. 1 pages
The efforts of the actors, writers and director to maintain the essence of Joyce Carol Oates's original novel in Lifetime's version of We Were the Mulvaneys, were, for the most part, successful, but the result is similar to the difference between cologne and fine...
 


Criticism and Essays
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Essay Grade: 88%
A Family Torn Apart
2,363 words, approx. 8 pages
My essay is about the novel "We Were the Mulvaneys" by Joyce Carol Oates.
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Essay Grade: 92%
We Were the Mulvaneys
1,789 words, approx. 6 pages
Changes with the Mulvaneys family. This evaluates how each one made their individual change.
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Essay Grade: 86%
We Were the Mulvaneys
602 words, approx. 2 pages
Essay is on an excerpt from "We were the Mulvaneys" written by Joyce Carol Oates.
 


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