Oates, Joyce Carol
Oates, Joyce Carol ( 1938 – ),American novelist, short story writer, poet, and critic, born in Lockport, New York, educated at Syracuse University and the University of Wisconsin. A former professor of English at the University of Detroit (a city which provides the setting for much of her work), she is a prolific novelist whose fiction portrays intense individual experiences as expressions of the dark and violent heart of American society. Her novels—predominantly naturalistic but with suggestions of the neo-Gothic —include With Shuddering Fall ( 1964 ), A Garden of Earthly Delights ( 1967 ), Expensive People ( 1968 ), them ( 1969 ), Wonderland ( 1971 ), Do With Me What You Will ( 1973 ), The Assassins ( 1975 ), The Childwold ( 1976 ), The Triumph of the Spider Monkey ( 1977 ), Son of the Morning ( 1978 ), Bellefleur ( 1980 ), A Bloodsmoor...
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