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Joyce Carol Oates

Oates in 2006.
Born 16 June 1938 (1938-06-16) (age 69)
Lockport, New York
Occupation Novelist, short story writer, playwright, poet, literary critic, professor, editor
Nationality American
Writing period 1963-
Influences
Influenced

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She serves as associate editor for the Ontario Review, a literary magazine, and the Ontario Review Press, a literary book publisher, both of which were edited by her late husband, Raymond J. Smith. A literary magazine is a Periodical devoted to Literature in a broad sense Publishing is the process of production and dissemination of Literature or Information &ndash the activity of making information available for public view Raymond J Smith (1930-2008 was for more than thirty years the editor of Ontario Review, a Literary magazine, and the Ontario Review Press,

Oates has also written under the pseudonyms "Rosamond Smith" and "Lauren Kelly. A pseudonym is a fictitious alternative to a person's legal name (see Alias) "

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Background and education

Oates was born in Lockport, New York, and grew up in the New York countryside. Lockport is a City in Niagara County, New York, United States. She attended the same one-room school her mother attended as a child.

Oates often remarks about receiving a copy of Alice in Wonderland when she was a little girl, and how it affected her life very deeply, growing up on a farm with very few books. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865 is a novel written by English author Charles Lutwidge Dodgson better known under the Pseudonym Lewis

Oates began to write stories with the typewriter she received from her grandmother when she was fourteen years old. She excelled in school, and she worked for her high school newspaper, called WISP, at Williamsville High School in Williamsville, New York (now called Williamsville South High School). Williamsville is a Village in Erie County New York in the United States. History The school was known as Williamsville High School until the opening of additional high schools within the Williamsville Central School District necessitated adding the Oates won a scholarship to attend Syracuse University. Syracuse University (SU is a private research university located in Syracuse, New York. She also won the "college short story" contest sponsored by Mademoiselle when she was nineteen years old. Mademoiselle was an influential women's Magazine first published in 1935 by Street and Smith and later acquired by After graduating as valedictorian from Syracuse in 1960 (where she was a member of Phi Mu), Oates received her M. Phi Mu ( ΦΜ) is the second oldest female fraternal organization established in the United States. A. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1961.

She is a member of Mensa. Mensa is the largest oldest and most famous high-IQ society in the world [2]

Career

Oates taught at the University of Detroit, publishing her first novel, With Shuddering Fall, when she was twenty-six years old. University of Detroit Mercy (UDM is a Comprehensive university in Detroit Michigan, United States, created in 1990 With Shuddering Fall is the first novel by Joyce Carol Oates. Her novel them received the National Book Award in 1970. them by Joyce Carol Oates is the third Novel in The Wonderland Quartet first published in 1969 The National Book Awards are among the most eminent literary prizes in the United States. She then started teaching at the University of Windsor, Ontario, Canada, right across the river from Detroit in 1968 to 1978. Since then she has published an average of two books a year, many of them novels. Frequent topics in her work include rural poverty, sexual abuse, class tensions, desire for power, female childhood and adolescence, and occasionally the supernatural. Violence is a constant in her work, even leading Oates to have written an essay in response to the question, "Why Is Your Writing So Violent?" She is a fan of poet and novelist Sylvia Plath, describing Plath's sole novel The Bell Jar as a "near perfect work of art"; but though Oates has often been compared to Plath, she disavows Plath's romanticism about suicide and among her characters, she favors cunning, hardy survivors, both women and men. A poet is a person who writes Poetry. Etymology From the Ancient greek: ποιέω, poieō: "I make or compose" Sylvia Plath (October 27 1932 &ndash February 11 1963 was an American Poet, Novelist and Short story Writer. The Bell Jar is American writer Sylvia Plath 's only novel which was originally published under the Pseudonym "Victoria Lucas" Oates' concern with violence and other traditionally masculine topics has won her the respect of such male authors as Norman Mailer. Norman Kingsley Mailer ( January 31, 1923 &ndash November 10, 2007) was an American Novelist, Journalist, She gained much attention for her book-length essay On Boxing. Oates has also written several books, mostly mystery novels, under the pen names Rosamond Smith and Lauren Kelly. A pen name, nom de plume, or literary double, is a Pseudonym adopted by an Author or their publishers to conceal their identity She also taught at the University of Windsor in Canada for ten years before moving to Princeton in 1978. The University of Windsor is a Non-denominational, provincially-supported Coeducational, public comprehensive university in Windsor, Ontario Country to "Dominion of Canada" or "Canadian Federation" or anything else please read the Talk Page

Her frequently anthologized short story "Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?",[3] (1966), was dedicated to Bob Dylan. "Where Are You Going Where Have You Been?" is a frequently anthologized short story written by Joyce Carol Oates. Bob Dylan (born Robert Zimmerman, May 24 1941 in Duluth, Minnesota) is an American singer-songwriter author poet and painter who has been a major [4] Oates said she wrote the story after listening to Dylan's song, "It's All Over Now, Baby Blue". " It's All Over Now Baby Blue " is a song by Bob Dylan. [5] The story is loosely based on the serial killer Charles Schmid, also known as "The Pied Piper of Tucson". Charles Howard 'Smitty' Schmid Jr ( July 8, 1942 - March 30, 1975) also known as The Pied Piper of Tucson, [6] It was the basis for the film, Smooth Talk, starring Laura Dern. Smooth Talk is a 1985 Motion picture, loosely based on Joyce Carol Oates ' 1966 Short story " Where Are You Going Where Have You Laura Elizabeth Dern (born February 10, 1967) is an Academy Award -nominated American Actress.

Oates is a member of the Board of Trustees of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. The John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation was founded in 1925 by Mr She is frequently cited as a perennial "favorite" to win the Nobel Prize in Literature by oddsmakers and critics. The Nobel Prize in Literature (Nobelpriset i litteratur is awarded annually since 1901 to an author from any country who has in the words from the will of Alfred [7]

Her papers, held at Syracuse University, include seventeen unpublished short stories and four unpublished or unfinished novellas. Oates has said that most of her early unpublished work was "cheerfully thrown away. "[8]

Oates' husband of forty-five years, Raymond J. Smith, died in February 2008.

Style and themes

From her first novel With Shuddering Fall in 1964, up to Kindred Passions in 1987, Oates built up a literary corpus that mixes Gothic estrangement with high social observation. Her works contain the typical elements of this type of tale: unconscious forces, seduction, incest, violence, and rape, sometimes to the point of sensationalism. She has written in a variety of genres, eras and landscapes -thus, she has works settled in a Faulkner-like Eden County, an imaginary area of upstate New York; in academia; in the Detroit slums and the Pennsylvania backwoods. William Faulkner (born William Cuthbert Falkner) ( September 25, 1897 – July 6, 1962) was an American Author The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania ( often colloquially referred to as PA (its abbreviation by natives and Northeasterners is a state located in the Northeastern But her works are not mere renderings of unusual experiences in far away places, both in space and time: novels such as A Bloodsmoor Romance, The Mysteries of Wintherthurn and Kindred Passions contain strong feminist overtones and use of the Gothic device to explore the ambiguities of gender and the sexual bases of fantasy.

Influences

In 2001, Oates stated that it was hard to begin tracing her literary influences, because "[t]here are so many. "[9] However, she has named several influences for her writing, both the content and her style. In her essay collection The Faith of a Writer, Oates wrote that a gift of Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland when she was eight was "the great treasure of my childhood, and the most profound literary influence of my life. Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (ˈdɒdsən (27 January 1832 &ndash 14 January 1898 better known by the Pen name Lewis Carroll (/ˈkærəl/ was an English Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865 is a novel written by English author Charles Lutwidge Dodgson better known under the Pseudonym Lewis This was love at first sight!"[10] She has also cited the influence of Sylvia Plath, Henry James, Henry David Thoreau, Flannery O'Connor, Bob Dylan, and William Faulkner. Sylvia Plath (October 27 1932 &ndash February 11 1963 was an American Poet, Novelist and Short story Writer. Henry James, OM ( –) son of theologian Henry James Sr, brother of the philosopher and psychologist William James and diarist Alice James Mary Flannery O'Connor ( March 25 1925 &ndash August 3 1964) was an American Novelist, Short-story Bob Dylan (born Robert Zimmerman, May 24 1941 in Duluth, Minnesota) is an American singer-songwriter author poet and painter who has been a major William Faulkner (born William Cuthbert Falkner) ( September 25, 1897 – July 6, 1962) was an American Author In her forays into gothic and horror fiction, Oates said she was "deeply influenced" by Franz Kafka and feels "a writerly kinship" with James Joyce. James Augustine Aloysius Joyce (2 February 1882 &ndash 13 January 1941 was an Irish expatriate writer widely considered to be one of the most influential writers of the [9]

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Bibliography

Novels

Novels as "Rosamond Smith"

Novels as "Lauren Kelly"

Novellas

Short story collections

Drama

Essays and criticism

Poetry

Young adult fiction

Children's fiction

Quotes

References

  1. ^ The Program in Creative Writing, Princeton University
  2. ^ Folse, Molly. "The Mensans and Me: Intelligence and perception put to the test at American Mensa's Annual Gathering. " Birmingham Weekly October 25-November 1, 2007. [1]
  3. ^ Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been? is available online here
  4. ^ Dedication Of Joyce Carol Oates Short Story To Dylan.
  5. ^ Lyrics to It's All Over Now, Baby Blue are available online here.
  6. ^ Charles Schmid, The Pied Piper of Tucson. CourtTV Crime Library.
  7. ^ New York Times, October 12, 2006 
  8. ^ ""The Madness of Scholarship"", Kennesaw: The Magazine of Kennesaw State College, 1993.  
  9. ^ a b HorrorOnline Author Focus: Joyce Carol Oates 1999
  10. ^ Oates (2003. ) The Faith of a Writer. p. 14.
  11. ^ http://www.chfestival.org/fest2006/index.cfm?fa=home.program&id=1236&sec=adult
  12. ^ Joyce Carol Oates' book, "We Were the Mulvaneys."
  13. ^ http://bookcriticscircle.blogspot.com/2008/01/2007-national-book-critics-circle-award.html
  14. ^ http://bookcriticscircle.blogspot.com/2008/01/2007-national-book-critics-circle-award.html
  15. ^ The National Book Foundation
  16. ^ http://www.penfaulkner.org/affWinners01.htm
  17. ^ http://jco.usfca.edu/awards.html
  18. ^ http://www.bookcritics.org/?go=pastAwards
  19. ^ http://www.nationalbook.org/nba1990.html
  20. ^ http://jco.usfca.edu/works/novels/wonderland.html
  21. ^ http://www.nationalbook.org/nba1969.html
  22. ^ http://www.nationalbook.org/nba1968.html

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