Joyce Carol Oates

Joyce Carol Oates
Oates in 2014
Born	(1938-06-16) June 16, 1938 (age 85) Lockport, New York, U.S.
Occupation	Novelist short story writer playwright poet literary critic professor editor
Education	Syracuse University (BA) University of Wisconsin, Madison (MA) Rice University
Period	1963–present
Notable works	A Garden of Earthly Delights (1967); them (1969); The Wheel of Love (1970); Wonderland (1971); Black Water (1992); Blonde (2000); High Lonesome: New & Selected Stories, 1966–2006 (2006)
Notable awards	O. Henry Award (1967) National Book Award (1970) O. Henry Award (1973) National Humanities Medal (2010) Stone Award for Lifetime Literary Achievement (2012) Jerusalem Prize (2019)
Spouses	Raymond J. Smith ​ ​ (m. 1961; died 2008)​ Charles G. Gross ​ ​ (m. 2009; died 2019)​

Joyce Carol Oates (born June 16, 1938) is an American writer. Oates published her first book in 1963, and has since published 58 novels, a number of plays and novellas, and many volumes of short stories, poetry, and non-fiction. Her novels Black Water (1992), What I Lived For (1994), and Blonde (2000), and her short story collections The Wheel of Love (1970) and Lovely, Dark, Deep: Stories (2014) were each finalists for the Pulitzer Prize. She has won many awards for her writing, including the National Book Award,^[1] for her novel them (1969), two O. Henry Awards, the National Humanities Medal, and the Jerusalem Prize (2019).

Oates taught at Princeton University from 1978 to 2014, and is the Roger S. Berlind '52 Professor Emerita in the Humanities with the Program in Creative Writing.^[2] From 2016 to 2020, she was a visiting professor at the University of California, Berkeley, where she taught short fiction in the spring semesters.^[3] She now teaches at Rutgers University, New Brunswick.^[4]

Oates was elected to the American Philosophical Society in 2016.^[5]