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Joyce Carol Oates is the author of more than 70 books, including novels, short story collections, poetry volumes, plays, literary criticism and essays. She is a recipient of the National Book Award and the PEN/Malamud Award for Excellence in Short Fiction, and she is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Her most recent book is The Falls (HarperCollins, 2004). She lives in New Jersey, where she is the Roger S. Berlind Distinguished Professor of the Humanities at Princeton University.
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Joyce Carol Oates 1938-, American author, b. Lockport, N.Y., grad. B.A., Syracuse Univ., 1960, M.A., Univ. of Wisconsin, 1961. She taught English at the Univ. of Detroit and the Univ. of Windsor, Ontario, Canada, and has been affiliated with Princeton Univ. since 1978. Oates writes about contemporary American life, which she sees as often defined by violence. She is particularly concerned with the connection between violence and love. Her characters are mainly ordinary, inarticulate people who sublimate the terrible things that happen to them. Although some of her novels have been labeled gothic, the violence in them is neither mysterious nor necessarily dramatic; it occurs randomly as in everyday life.
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Joyce Carol Oates is the author of the forthcoming novel The Gravedigger's Daughter. She is a recipient of the National Book Award and the PEN/Malamud Award for Excellence in Short Fiction. She is ... the recipient of the 2005 Prix Femina for The Falls. She is the Roger S. Berlind Distinguished Professor of the Humanities at Princeton University, and she has been a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters since 1978.
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As the winner of the National Book Award for her 1970 novel Them and the recipient of four O. Henry awards and numerous other literary prizes, Joyce Carol Oates is among the most distinguished writers in the United States. In her considerable body of work, she has created an array of male and female protagonists from a diversity of regional, economic, and occupational backgrounds. In the four decades since her first book, the short-story collection By the North Gate, appeared to critical acclaim in 1963, Oates has published more than thirty novels, more than twenty-five books of short fiction, several volumes of poetry, a number of plays, and more than a half-dozen collections of essays and literary criticism [Adapted from Current Biography (1994)].
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One of America's most prolific and versatile contemporary writers, Joyce Carol Oates, will visit Ulster County Community College's Stone Ridge campus on Tuesday, October 26, as part of the College's Library Writers Series. There will be two sessions in the Vanderlyn Hall Student Lounge, both free and open to the public. Ms. Oates will make an informal presentation at 1:30 p.m. followed by a question and answer session. At 7:00 p.m. Ms. Oates will present selections from her novels, short stories and poetry. A book signing and reception will follow.
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Joyce Carol Oates's legions of fans will love this. It's a saga with all Oates's characteristically strong writing and huge ambitions. The scope is, as ever, huge - the story follows a woman, Ariah, from her doomed first wedding, right through the family she subsequently goes on to have. But this is not just a family epic - there are ... themes of morality and capitalism and the fight of one individual - Ariah's second husband, the gorgeous, altruistic lawyer - to attain justice for the victims of a man-made disaster.
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