Joyce Carol Oates

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Joyce Carol Oates
Joyce Carol Oates
Oates in 2006
Born 16 June 1938
Lockport, New York, U.S.
Occupation Novelist, short story writer, playwright, poet, literary critic, professor, editor
Nationality American
Period 1963present
Notable awards 1967 O. Henry Award
1973 O. Henry Award
1970 National Book Award
2010 National Humanities Medal
2012 Stone Award for Lifetime Literary Achievement
Spouse Raymond J. Smith
(19612008; his death)
Charles Gross (2009present)
Joyce Carol Oates (born June 16, 1938) is an American author. Oates published her first book in 1963 and has since
published over forty novels, as well as a number of plays and novellas, and many volumes of short stories, poetry,
and nonfiction. She has won many awards for her writing, including the National Book Award, for her novel them
(1969), two O. Henry Awards, and the National Humanities Medal. Her novels Black Water (1992), What I Lived
For (1994), and Blonde (2000) were nominated for the Pulitzer Prize.
Oates has taught at Princeton University since 1978 and is currently the Roger S. Berlind '52 Professor in the
Humanities with the Program in Creative Writing.
Life and career
Early life and education
Oates was born in Lockport, New York. She is the eldest of three children of Carolina (ne Bush), a homemaker of
Hungarian descent, and Frederic James Oates, a tool and die designer. She was raised Catholic but is now atheist.
Her brother, Fred Jr., was born in 1943, and her sister, Lynn Ann, who is severely autistic, was born in 1956. Oates
grew up in the working-class farming community of Millersport, New York, and characterized hers as "a happy,
close-knit and unextraordinary family for our time, place and economic status". Her paternal grandmother, Blanche
Woodside, lived with the family and was "very close" to Joyce. After Blanche's death, Joyce learned that Blanche's
father had killed himself, and Blanche had subsequently concealed her Jewish heritage; Oates eventually drew on
aspects of her grandmother's life in writing the novel The Gravedigger's Daughter (2007).
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Oates attended the same one-room school her mother attended as a child. She became interested in reading at an
early age and remembers Blanche's gift of Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865) as "the great
treasure of my childhood, and the most profound literary influence of my life. This was love at first sight!" In her
early teens, she devoured the writing of Charlotte Bront, Emily Bront, Fyodor Dostoevsky, William Faulkner,
Ernest Hemingway, and Henry David Thoreau, whose "influences remain very deep". Oates began writing at the age
of 14, when Blanche gave her a typewriter. Oates later transferred to several bigger, suburban schools and graduated
from Williamsville South High School in 1956, where she worked for her high school newspaper.Wikipedia:Citation
needed She was the first in her family to complete high school.
Oates earned a scholarship to attend Syracuse University, where she joined Phi Mu. Oates found Syracuse "a very
exciting place academically and intellectually", and trained herself by "writing novel after novel and always
throwing them out when I completed them." It was not until this point that Oates began reading the work of Franz
Kafka, D. H. Lawrence, Thomas Mann, and Flannery O'Connor though, she noted, "these influences are still quite
strong, pervasive." At the age of 19, she won the "college short story" contest sponsored by Mademoiselle. Oates
graduated from Syracuse University with a degree in English as valedictorian in 1960 and received her M.A. from
the University of WisconsinMadison in 1961. She was a Ph.D. student at Rice University when she made the
decision to become a full-time writer.
Evelyn Shrifte, president of the Vanguard Press, met Oates soon after Oates received her master's degree. "She was
fresh out of school, and I thought she was a genius", Shrifte said. Vanguard published Oates' first book, the
short-story collection By the North Gate, in 1963.
Literary career
The Vanguard Press published Oates' first novel, With Shuddering Fall (1964), when she was 26 years old. In 1966,
she published "Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?", a short story dedicated to Bob Dylan and written
after listening to his song "It's All Over Now, Baby Blue." The story is loosely based on the serial killer Charles
Schmid, also known as "The Pied Piper of Tucson". It has been anthologized several times and adapted as a film,
Smooth Talk starring Laura Dern (1985). In 2008, Oates said that of all her published work, she is most noted for
"Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?".
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Another early short story, "In a Region of Ice" (The Atlantic
Monthly, August 1966), features a young, gifted Jewish-American student. It dramatizes his drift into protest against
the world of education and the sober, established society of his parents, his depression, and eventually
murder-cum-suicide. It was inspired by a real-life incident (as were several of her works) and Oates had been
acquainted with the model of her protagonist. She revisited this subject in the title story of her collection Last Days
(1985). "In a Region of Ice" won the first of her two O. Henry Awards. Her second novel was A Garden of Earthly
Delights (1967), first of the so-called Wonderland Quartet published by Vanguard 1967 to 1971. All were finalists
for the annual National Book Award.
Oates's novel them (1969) won the 1970 National Book Award for Fiction. It is set in Detroit during a time span
from the 1930s to the 1960s, most of it in black ghetto neighborhoods, and deals openly with crime, drugs, and
racial/class conflicts. Again, some of the key characters and events were based on real people whom Oates had
known or heard of during her years in the city. Since then she has published an average of two books a year.
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?" In 1990 she discussed her novel,
Because It Is Bitter, and Because It Is My Heart, which also deals with themes of racial tension, and described "the
experience of writing [it]" as "so intense it seemed almost electric".
[2]
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.Wikipedia:Citation needed In the early 1980s, Oates began writing stories in the
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Gothic and horror genres; in her foray into these genres, Oates said she was "deeply influenced" by Kafka and felt "a
writerly kinship" with James Joyce.
In 1996, Oates published We Were the Mulvaneys, a novel following the disintegration of an American family, which
became a best-seller after being selected by Oprah's Book Club in 2001. In the 1990s and early 2000s, Oates wrote
several books, mostly mystery novels, under the pen names "Rosamond Smith" and "Lauren Kelly".
For more than twenty-five years, Oates has been rumored to be a "favorite" to win the Nobel Prize in Literature by
oddsmakers and critics. 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".
One review of Oates's 1970 story collection The Wheel of Love characterized her as an author "of considerable
talent" but at that time "far from being a great writer".
[3]
In 2006, Oates's short story "Landfill" attracted controversy due to its details being based on the death of John A.
Fiocco Jr., a 19-year old college student in New Jersey who had died a few months earlier.
Teaching career
Oates taught in Beaumont, Texas, for a year before moving to Detroit in 1962, where she began teaching at the
University of Detroit. Influenced by the Vietnam war, the 1967 Detroit race riots, and a job offer, in 1968 Oates
moved with her husband across the river to Ontario, and to a teaching position at the University of Windsor. In 1978,
she moved to Princeton, New Jersey and began teaching at Princeton University.
In 1995, Princeton undergraduate Jonathan Safran Foer took an introductory writing course with Oates,
[4]
who took
an interest in Foer's writing, telling him that he had "that most important of writerly qualities, energy".
[5]
Foer later
recalled that "she was the first person to ever make me think I should try to write in any sort of serious way. And my
life really changed after that." Oates served as the advisor to Foer's senior thesis, an early version of his novel
Everything Is Illuminated, which was published to wide acclaim in 1999.
She expects to teach her last Princeton writing seminar in the fall of 2014, and to formally retire from teaching the
following July.
[6]
Personal life
Oates in 2013
At the University of WisconsinMadison, Oates met Raymond J.
Smith, a fellow graduate student, whom she married in 1961. Smith
became a professor of 18th-century literature and later, an editor and
publisher. Together the couple founded The Ontario Review, a literary
magazine, in 1974, on which Oates served as associate editor.
[7]
] The
magazines mission, according to Smith, the editor, was to bridge the
literary and artistic culture of the U.S. and Canada: We tried to do this
by publishing writers and artists from both countries, as well as essays
and reviews of an intercultural nature.
[8]
In 1980, Oates and Smith
founded Ontario Review Books, an independent publishing house. In
2004, Oates described the partnership as "a marriage of like minds both my husband and I are so interested in
literature and we read the same books; he'll be reading a book and then I'll read it we trade and we talk about our
reading at meal times [...] it's a very collaborative and imaginative marriage". Smith died of complications from
pneumonia on February 18, 2008. In April 2008, Oates wrote to an interviewer, "Since my husband's unexpected
death, I really have very little energy [...] My marriage my love for my husband seems to have come first in my
life, rather than my writing. Set beside his death, the future of my writing scarcely interests me at the moment."
[9]
After six months of near suicidal grieving for Raymond Smith, Oates met Charles Gross, a professor in the
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Psychology Department and Neuroscience Institute at Princeton, at a dinner party at her home. In early 2009, Oates
and Gross were married.
Oates is devoted to running and has written, "Ideally, the runner who's a writer is running through the land- and
cityscapes of her fiction, like a ghost in a real setting."
[10]
While running, Oates mentally envisions scenes in her
novels and works out structural problems in already-written drafts; she formulated the germ of her novel You Must
Remember This (1987) while running, when she "glanced up and saw the ruins of a railroad bridge", which reminded
her of "a mythical upstate New York city in the right place".
In 1973, Oates began keeping a detailed journal documenting her personal and literary life; it eventually grew to
"more than 4,000 single-spaced typewritten pages".
[11]
In 2008, Oates said she had "moved away from keeping a
formal journal" and instead preserves copies of her e-mails. Oates is a member of the Board of Trustees of the John
Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation.Wikipedia:Citation needed
Productivity
Oates writes in longhand,
[12]
working from "8 till 1 every day, then again for two or three hours in the evening."
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Her prolificacy has become one of her best-known attributes; The New York Times wrote in 1989 that Oates's "name
is synonymous with productivity",
[13]
and in 2004, The Guardian noted that "Nearly every review of an Oates book,
it seems, begins with a list [of the number of books she has published]". In a journal entry written in the 1970s, Oates
sarcastically addressed her critics, writing, "So many books! so many! Obviously JCO has a full career behind her, if
one chooses to look at it that way; many more titles and she might as well... what?...give up all hopes for a
'reputation'? [...] but I work hard, and long, and as the hours roll by I seem to create more than I anticipate; more,
certainly, than the literary world allows for a 'serious' writer. Yet I have more stories to tell, and more novels [...]
".
[14]
In The New York Review of Books in 2007, Michael Dirda suggested that disparaging criticism of Oates
"derives from reviewer's angst: How does one judge a new book by Oates when one is not familiar with most of the
backlist? Where does one start?"
Several publications have published lists of what they deem the best Joyce Carol Oates books, designed to help
introduce readers to the author's daunting oeuvre. In a 2003 article entitled "Joyce Carol Oates for dummies", The
Rocky Mountain News recommended starting with her early short stories and the novels A Garden of Earthly
Delights (1967), them (1969), Wonderland (1971), Black Water (1992), and Blonde (2000).
[15]
In 2006, The Times
listed them, On Boxing (1987), Black Water, and High Lonesome: New & Selected Stories, 19662006 (2006) as
"The Pick of Joyce Carol Oates".
[16]
In 2007, Entertainment Weekly listed their Oates "favorites" as Wonderland,
Black Water, Blonde, I'll Take You There (2002), and The Falls (2004).
[17]
In 2003, Oates herself said that she thinks
she will be remembered for, and would most want a first-time Oates reader to read, them and Blonde, though she
added that "I could as easily have chosen a number of titles."
[18]
Select awards and honors
Winner:
1967: O. Henry Award "In the Region of Ice"
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1968: M. L. Rosenthal Award, National Institute of Arts and Letters A Garden of Earthly Delights
1970: National Book Award for Fiction them
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1973: O. Henry Award "The Dead"
1990: Rea Award for the Short Story
1996: Bram Stoker Award for Novel Zombie
1996: PEN/Malamud Award for Excellence in the Art of the Short Story
2002: Peggy V. Helmerich Distinguished Author Award
[19]
2003: Kenyon Review Award for Literary Achievement (The Kenyon Review)
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2005: Prix Femina Etranger The Falls
2006: Chicago Tribune Literary Prize (Chicago Tribune)
2006: Honorary Doctor of Humane Letters, Mount Holyoke College
2007: Humanist of the Year, American Humanist Association
2009: Ivan Sandrof Award for Lifetime Achievement, NBCC
[20]
2010: National Humanities Medal
2010: Fernanda Pivano Award
2011: Honorary Doctor of Arts, University of Pennsylvania
2011: World Fantasy Award for Best Short Fiction Fossil-Figures
2012: Stone Award for Lifetime Literary Achievement, Oregon State University
2012: Norman Mailer Prize, Lifetime Achievement
2013: Bram Stoker Award for Best Fiction Collection Black Dahlia and White Rose: Stories
Nominated:
1963: O. Henry Award Special Award for Continuing Achievement (1970), five Second Prize (1964 to 1989),
two First Prize (above) among 29 nominations
1968: National Book Award for Fiction A Garden of Earthly Delights
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1969: National Book Award Expensive People
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1972: National Book Award Wonderland
[23]
1990: National Book Award Because It Is Bitter, and Because It Is My Heart
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1992: National Book Critics Circle Award, Fiction Black Water
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1993: Pulitzer Prize for Fiction Black Water
[25]
1995: Pulitzer Prize What I Lived For
1995: PEN/Faulkner Award What I Lived For
2000: National Book Award Blonde
[26]
2001: Pulitzer Prize Blonde
2007: National Book Critics Circle Award, Fiction The Gravedigger's Daughter
2007: National Book Critics Circle Award, Memoir/Autobiography The Journals of Joyce Carol Oates,
19731982
2013: Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award for Black Dahlia and White Rose: Stories
Bibliography
Novels
With Shuddering Fall (1964)
A Garden of Earthly Delights (1967)
Expensive People (1968)
them (1969)
Wonderland (1971)
Do With Me What You Will (1973)
The Assassins (1975)
Childwold (1976)
Son of the Morning (1978)
Cybele (1979)
Unholy Loves (1979)
Bellefleur (1980)
Angel of Light (1981)
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A Bloodsmoor Romance (1982)
Mysteries of Winterthurn (1984)
Solstice (1985)
Marya: A Life (1986)
You Must Remember This (1987)
American Appetites (1989)
Because It Is Bitter, and Because It Is My Heart (1990)
Foxfire: Confessions of a Girl Gang (1993) (the basis for the 1996 film Foxfire)
What I Lived For (1994)
Zombie (1995)
We Were the Mulvaneys (1996)
Man Crazy (1997)
My Heart Laid Bare (1998)
Broke Heart Blues (1999)
Blonde (2000)
Middle Age: A Romance (2001)
I'll Take You There (2002)
The Tattooed Girl (2003)
The Falls (2004)
Missing Mom (2005)
Black Girl / White Girl (2006)
The Gravedigger's Daughter (2007)
My Sister, My Love (2008)
Little Bird of Heaven (2009)
Mudwoman (2012)
Daddy Love (2013)
The Accursed (2013)
Carthage (2014)
Short story collections
By the North Gate (1963)
Upon the Sweeping Flood And Other Stories (1966)
The Wheel of Love and Other Stories (1970)
"How I Contemplated the World from the Detroit House of Correction"
Marriages and Infidelities (1972)
The Goddess and Other Women (1974)
The Hungry Ghosts: Seven Allusive Comedies (1974)
Where are you going, Where have you been?: Stories of Young America (1974)
The Poisoned Kiss and Other Stories from the Portuguese (1975)
Crossing the Border (1976)
Night-Side (1977)
All the Good People I've Left Behind (1979)
A Sentimental Education (1980)
Last Days: Stories (1984)
Raven's Wing (1986)
The Assignation (1988)
Oates in Exile (1990)
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Heat & Other Stories (1991)
Where is Here? (1992)
Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?:Selected Early Stories (1993)
Haunted: Tales of the Grotesque (1994)
Demon and other tales (1996)
Will You Always Love Me? And Other Stories (1996)
The Collector of Hearts: New Tales of the Grotesque (1998)
Faithless: Tales of Transgression (2001)
I Am No One You Know: Stories (2004)
The Female of the Species: Tales of Mystery and Suspense (2006)
High Lonesome: New & Selected Stories, 1966-2006 (2006)
The Museum of Dr. Moses: Tales of Mystery and Suspense (2007)
Wild Nights! (2008)
Dear Husband (2009)
Sourland: Stories (2010)
Give Me Your Heart: Tales of Mystery and Suspense (2011)
The Corn Maiden and Other Nightmares (2011)
Black Dahlia & White Rose (2012)
Evil Eye: Four Novellas of Love Gone Wrong (2013)
High Crime Area: Tales of Darkness and Dread (2014)
Novels as "Rosamond Smith"
Lives of the Twins (1987) (U.K. title: Kindred Passions)
Soul/Mate (1989)
Nemesis (1990)
Snake Eyes (1992)
You Can't Catch Me (1995)
Double Delight (1997)
Starr Bright Will Be With you Soon (1999)
The Barrens (2001)
Novels as "Lauren Kelly"
Take Me, Take Me With You (2003)
The Stolen Heart (2005)
Blood Mask (2006)
Novellas
The Triumph of the Spider Monkey (1976)
I Lock My Door Upon Myself (1990)
The Rise of Life on Earth (1991)
Black Water (1992)
First Love: A Gothic Tale (1996)
Beasts (2002)
Rape: A Love Story (2003)
The Corn Maiden: A Love Story (2005)
A Fair Maiden (2010)
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Drama
Miracle Play (1974)
Three Plays (1980)
Tone Clusters (1990)
In Darkest America (1991)
I Stand Before You Naked (1991)
Twelve Plays (1991) (including Black)
The Perfectionist and Other Plays (1995)
New Plays (1998)
Dr. Magic: Six One Act Plays (2004)
Essays and Memoirs
The Edge of Impossibility: Tragic Forms in Literature (1972)
The Hostile Sun: The Poetry of D.H. Lawrence (1973)
New Heaven, New Earth: The Visionary Experience in Literature (1974)
The Picture of Dorian Gray: Wildes Parable of the Fall (1980)
Contraries: Essays (1981)
The Profane Art: Essays & Reviews (1983)
On Boxing (1987)
(Woman) Writer: Occasions and Opportunities (1988)
George Bellows: American Artist (1995)
They Just Went Away 1995
Where I've Been, And Where I'm Going: Essays, Reviews, and Prose (1999)
The Faith of A Writer: Life, Craft, Art (2003)
Uncensored: Views & (Re)views (2005)
In the Absence of Mentors/Monsters (2009)
In Rough Country (2010)
A Widow's Story: A Memoir (2011)
Poetry
Women In Love and Other Poems (1968)
Anonymous Sins & Other Poems (1969)
Love and Its Derangements (1970)
Angel Fire (1973)
The Fabulous Beasts (1975)
Women Whose Lives Are Food, Men Whose Lives Are Money (1978)
Invisible Woman: New and Selected Poems, 19701982 (1982)
The Time Traveler (1989)
Tenderness (1996)
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Young adult fiction
Big Mouth & Ugly Girl (2002)
Small Avalanches and Other Stories (2003)
Freaky Green Eyes (2003)
Sexy (2005)
After the Wreck, I Picked Myself Up, Spread My Wings, and Flew Away (2006)
Two or Three Things I Forgot to Tell You (2012)
Children's fiction
Come Meet Muffin! (1998)
Where Is Little Reynard? (2003)
Naughty Chrie! (2008)
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