Joyce Carol Oates - 1938
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I. Bibliography Joyce Carol Oates was born on June 16, 1938 in Lockport, New York. Oates writes novels, short stories and essays. She was a student at Syracuse University
for several years. While still in college, she won the Mademoiselle fiction contest. She was the Valedictorian of her class. After graduating from SU she
went to the University of Wisconsin to major in English. Oates has received several awards and honors throughout her life. She won the National Book award for them
. She has also won the Rosenthal Award, a Guggenheim Fellowship, the O'Henry Prize, the Elmer Holmes Bobst Lifetime Achievement Award, and in 1978 she
earned a spot in the American Academy Institute. She has also had the honor of being nominated not once, but twice, for the Nobel Prize in Literature. II. Home
In 1978, Oates and her husband moved to Princeton, New Jersey. This is where she began to write Bellefleur. Before living in New Jersey, she lived in Detroit. She says that Detroit
is what drove her to write the novel them. From 1968 to 1978, Oates wrote and taught in Canada. During this time she was a full-time teacher and she published two or three books each year.
III. Works by Joyce Carol Oates Where I've Been, and Where I'm Going (1999) IV. Interview
Oates did an interview at San Francisco's City Arts and Lecture Series. The topic of the interview was her novel, Zombie. The narrator of the book is a serial sex killer. Below are
highlights from the interview. To view the rest of it go to
Broke Heart Blues (1999)
Zombie (1995)
Fox Fire: Confessions of a Girl Gang (1993)
Black Water (1992)
Do With Me What You Will (1973)
them (1969)
Upon the Sweeping Flood (1965)
With Shuddering Fall (1964)
"Ted Bundy is actually- -this sounds a little bizarre- - less realistic in terms of the serial
killer profile than my Zombie. My Zombie is much more representative. Though I think of him as a real person and he has his own unique identity, he fits the profile much more than
Ted Bundy did, who was so charming, so intelligent." V. Audio Interview To hear an audio interview with Oates go to
VI. Links More information can be found at the following websites: VII. Bibliography
Johnson, Greg. "Joyce Carol Oates, A Brief Biography". (Online) Available "Lit Chat inhabiting the mind of a zombie killer". (Online) Available "The Writer Joyce Carol Oates". (Online) Available
This essay was submitted by a student of Marylin Dykens, a teacher at Rome Free Academy in Rome, New York.
http://storm.usfca.edu/~southerr/jco.bio.html