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Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been? 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
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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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"Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?" by Joyce Carol Oates Born in Lockport, New York, on June 16, 1938, Joyce Carol Oates published her first collection of short stories in 1963. She became noted for her portrayals of evil and violence in...
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Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been? is a frequently anthologized short story written by Joyce Carol Oates. Oates's story was inspired by three Tucson, Arizona murders committed by Charles Schmid, which were profiled in Life Magazine in an article...


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World Literature Today
Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been? (book reviews)
03/22/1994: 518 words, approx. 2 pages
Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?, which is subtitled "Selected Early Stories," offers readers the opportunity to reassess and celebrate Joyce Carol Oates's contributions to the contemporary American short story. Few writers of our time can match her productivity (over four hundred...
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The Independent - London
Where Are You Going?
05/25/1995: 501 words, approx. 2 pages
We stopped some visitors to London and asked what they were doing. This is what they told us. . . We are here for two days' holiday. We have been to London Bridge, Buckingham Palace, Big Ben, 10 Downing Street, Parliament Square, and...
 


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