Joyce Carol Oates is an American author and is the Roger S. Berlind ‘52 Professor in the Humanities with the Program in Creative Writing at Princeton University, where she has taught since 1978. She serves as associate editor for “Ontario Review”, a literary magazine, and the “Ontario Review Press”, a literary book publisher, both of which are edited by her husband, Raymond J. Smith.
Oates taught at the University of Detroit, publishing her first novel, “With Shuddering Fall”, when she was 26. Her novel them received the National Book Award in 1970. Other notable releases include “We Were the Mulvaneys”, “The Female of the Species: Tales of Mystery and Suspense”, “The Falls: A Novel (P.S.)”, “Black Girl/White Girl”, “Rape”, and “Blonde”. Oates has also written several books, mostly mystery novels, under the pen names Rosamond Smith and Lauren Kelly. Oates is a member of the Board of Trustees of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. She is also frequently cited as a perennial “favorite” to win the Nobel Prize in Literature by oddsmakers and critics.
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