How I Contemplated the World from the Detroit House of Correction and Began My Life Over Again | Author Biography
Joyce Carol Oates was born in Erie County in western New York in 1938. Her parents worked hard throughout the great depression to support her and her two younger siblings, her father at the tool and dye shop and her mother keeping house. Although her working class Catholic beginnings could hardly predict the literary heights she would attain later in life, she was always a serious and highachieving child and made the most of the educational opportunities that she was given.
Her early education was uneven at best. After attending a one-room schoolhouse, and junior high, in...
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