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Raymond Carver like Oates, frequently wrote about his working-class upbringing. His collection of stories Cathedral (1983) was nominated for the National Book Critics Circle Award and was runner-up for the Pulitzer Prize.

• Oates’s novel them (1969) concerns the race riots in Detroit in the late 1960s, when Oates lived in the city. The novel received the National Book Award in 1970.

• In 1987, Oates published the...

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