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Joyce Carol Oates is an American writer. She brought out her first book in 1963 and since then has published over 50 novels, along with many volumes of short stories, poetry, and nonfiction.
 
Many of her works have received critical acclaim. Her novel them (1969) won the National Book Award, and her novels Black Water (1992), What I Lived For (1994), and Blonde (2000) were nominated for the Pulitzer Prize.

Joyce Carol Oates has produced a huge quantity of work. As of this writing, Joyce Carol Oates has written 56 novels, over 30 collections of short stories, eight volumes of poetry, plays, innumerable essays and book reviews. She has also done longer nonfiction works on literary subjects. In 1996, Oates received the PEN/Malamud Award for "a lifetime of literary achievement."

Oates has three publishers—one for fiction, one for poetry and a “small press” for experimental work. She also teaches and continues to be a contributing editor to The Ontario Review, a literary quarterly that her husband edits.

Her husband, Raymond Smith, died in 2008, shortly before the publication of her collection of short stories, Dear Husband. She has described her experiences vividly in the memoir, A Widow\'s Tale that she released in 2011.

Joyce Carol Oates continues to live and write in New Jersey, where she is a distinguished professor of Humanities. She married Professor Charles Gross, of the Psychology Department and Neuroscience Institute at Princeton.
 

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