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'''Joyce Carol Oates''' (Born 1938) is an American writer. Her works include ''A Garden of Earthly Delights'' (1967), ''Expensive People'' (1968), ''them'' (1969), ''Bellefleur'' (1980), ''On Boxing'' (1987), ''You Must Remember This'' (1988), ''American Appetites'' (1989), and ''Black Water'' (1992). She won a National Book Award for ''them''.<ref>''The New York Public Library Student's Desk Reference''. Prentice Hall: New York, 1991.</ref>
'''Joyce Carol Oates''' (Born 1938) is an American writer. Her works include ''A Garden of Earthly Delights'' (1967), ''Expensive People'' (1968), ''them'' (1969), ''Bellefleur'' (1980), ''On Boxing'' (1987), ''You Must Remember This'' (1988), ''American Appetites'' (1989), and ''Black Water'' (1992). She won a National Book Award for ''them''.<ref>''The New York Public Library Student's Desk Reference''. Prentice Hall: New York, 1991.</ref>
==Life and Works==
Oates was born June 16, 1938 in Lockport, New York.<ref>http://www.biography.com/people/joyce-carol-oates-9426174</ref> She enjoyed telling dark stories from an early age, and was rejected by a publisher at age 15 for her first novel, about a drug dealer's rehab.<ref>http://biography.yourdictionary.com/joyce-carol-oates</ref> She attended Syracuse University and published her first book, a short story collection called ''By the North Gate'', in 1963.<ref>http://www.famousauthors.org/joyce-carol-oates</ref> Since then, she has been very prolific as a volume writer and writers profane and explicit works.<ref>http://www.encyclopedia.com/people/literature-and-arts/american-literature-biographies/joyce-carol-oates</ref> She wrote many, many novels, including ''A Garden of Earthly Delights'', ''them'', ''Do with Me What You Will'' (1973), ''Foxfire: Confessions of a Girl Gang'' (1993), ''Zombie'' (1995), ''We Were the Mulvaneys'' (1996), ''Broke Heart Blues'' (1999), ''The Falls'' (2004), ''My Sister, My Love: The Intimate Story of Skyler Rampike'' (2008), ''Mudwoman'' (2012), ''Daddy Love'' (2013), ''Carthage'' (2014), ''Jack of Spades'' (2015), and ''The Man Without a Shadow'' (2016).<ref>"Oates, Joyce Carol." ''Encyclopedia Britannica''.</ref>
In her later works, she focused on race and violence, as in ''Black Water''.<ref>http://www.notablebiographies.com/Ni-Pe/Oates-Joyce-Carol.html</ref> Her most recent novel, ''A Book of American Martyrs'' (1999), begins with the murder of an abortion doctor by a man calling himself a soldier of Christ.<ref>http://www.npr.org/2017/02/07/513905163/joyce-carol-oates-new-novel-begins-with-an-abortion-doctors-murder</ref>
==See Also==
*[[James Joyce]]
==References==
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