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Joyce Carol Oates

Biography

Joyce Carol Oates

Joyce Carol Oates is a recipient of the National Book Award and the PEN/Malamud Award for Excellence in Short Fiction. She has written some of the most enduring fiction of our time, including the national bestsellers WE WERE THE MULVANEYS and BLONDE (a finalist for the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize), and the New York Times bestsellers THE FALLS (winner of the 2005 Prix Femina Etranger) and THE GRAVEDIGGER'S DAUGHTER. She is the Roger S. Berlind Distinguished Professor of the Humanities at Princeton University and has been a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters since 1978. In 2003 she received the Common Wealth Award for Distinguished Service in Literature and The Kenyon Review Award for Literary Achievement, and in 2006 she received the Chicago Tribune Lifetime Achievement Award.

Joyce Carol Oates

Books by Joyce Carol Oates

by Joyce Carol Oates - Psychological Thriller

MUDWOMAN explores the high price of repression in the life of a respected university president teetering on the precipice of a nervous breakdown.

by Joyce Carol Oates - Fiction, Mystery, Short Stories, Suspense

An incomparable master storyteller in all forms, in THE CORN MAIDEN AND OTHER NIGHTMARES Joyce Carol Oates spins six imaginative tales of suspense.