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Joyce Carol Oates
July 9, 2008
Joyce Carol Oates is one of
the United States' most prolific and versatile contemporary writers.
With a writing career that spans 25 years, Ms. Oates is the author
of more than 70 books including novels, short story collections,
poetry volumes, plays, literary criticism and essays. Her writing
has earned her much praise and many awards. She won the National
Book Award for her novel them (1970), and was a finalist for
the award on five other occasions.
She has been honored with the
Rosenthal Award from the American Academy Institute of Arts and
Letters, a Guggenheim Fellowship, the O'Henry Prize for Continued
Achievement in the Short Story, the PEN/Malamud Award for Achievement
in the Short Story (1996), the F. Scott Fitzgerald Award for
Outstanding Achievement in American Literature (1998), and the
2003 Kenyon Review Award for Literature. She also has been nominated
twice for the Nobel Prize in Literature and is a three-time finalist
for the Pulitzer Prize.
Ms. Oates' most recent fiction
includes The Gravedigger's Daughter (2007); Black Girl, White
Girl (2006); High Lonesome: New and Selected Stories 1996 - 2006;
I am No One You Know (stories) (2004); The Falls (2004); Rape:
A Love Story (2004); Beasts (2002); Big Mouth & Ugly Girl
(2002); Faithless: Tales of Transgression (2001); Blonde (2000);
and Broke Heart Blues (1999). We Were the Mulvaneys (1996) was
a 2001 selection of Oprah's Book Club
Ms. Oates is the Roger S. Berlind
Distinguished Professor of the Humanities at Princeton University
where she is a Professor of Creative Writing in the University
Center for the Creative and Performing Arts. |
