Oates, Joyce Carol (1938–)
Oates, Joyce Carol (1938–)
American novelist, essayist, poet and short-story writer. Name variations: (pseudonym) Rosamond Smith. Born June 16, 1938, in Millersport, NY; dau. of Frederic Oates and Caroline Oates; Syracuse University, BA, 1960; University of Wisconsin, MA, 1961; m. Raymond Smith, 1961.
Preeminent fiction writer, began teaching at University of Detroit (1961–67); was a professor of English at University of Windsor, Ontario (1968–78); was writer-in-residence at Princeton University (1978); published 1st novel, With Shuddering Fall (1964); with husband, founded press and literary magazine The Ontario Quarterly; fiction includes A Garden of Earthly Delights (1967), Expensive People (1968), Wonderland (1971), Marriages and Infidelities (1972), The Seduction and Other Stories (1975), Childwold (1976), Unholy Loves (1979), Bellefleur (1980), A Bloodsmoor Romance (1982), Marya: A Life (1986), On Boxing (1987), Lives of the Twins (1987), You Must Remember This (1989), Nemesis (1990), Blackwater (1992), Haunted: Tales of the Grotesque (1994), First Love (1996), Blonde (2000), Take Me, Take Me With You (2004), and I Am No One You Know: Stories (2004); nonfiction includes New Heaven, New Earth: The Visionary Experience in Literature (1974), The Profane Art: Essays and Reviews (1983), and The Faith of a Writer: Life, Craft, Art (2003); writes suspense novels under pseudonym Rosamond Smith. Received National Book Award for them (1970).