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Joyce Carol Oates is widely recognized as one of America’s most active writers, having published dozens of novels, poetry collections, short story collections, dramas, and essays. She was born in 1938, the same year as Jules Wendall of them, and she grew up in the rural countryside on the outskirts of Lockport, New York, attending a one-room school during her primary education. After receiving a typewriter at age fourteen, she wrote “novel after novel” throughout high school and college. Oates attended Syracuse University on a scholarship, graduating as class valedictorian...
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