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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>

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>

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>https://www.npr.org/2017/02/07/513905163/joyce-carol-oates-new-novel-begins-with-an-abortion-doctors-murder</ref>

==See also==

==See also==