Joyce Carol Oates, author portrait
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Joyce Carol Oates

Joyce Carol Oates is a recipient of a National Humanities Medal awarded by President Barack Obama, the National Book Critics Circle’s Ivan Sandrof Life Achievement Award, the National Book Award in Fiction, the Jerusalem Prize, the Prix Femina, the Cino Del Duca World Prize, and is a five-time finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. She has written some of the most enduring fiction of our time, including the bestsellers Blonde and We Were the Mulvaneys. She is the Roger S. Berlind ’52 Distinguished Professor of the Humanities Emerita at Princeton University and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters. In 2024 she won the Raymond Chandler Lifetime Achievement Award given to "a master of the thriller and noir literary genre."
The Frenzy
Butcher
Fox
Broke Heart Blues
Zero-Sum
Babysitter
Dark Screams: Volume Six
What You Wish For
Expensive People
Wonderland
them
A Garden of Earthly Delights
We Were the Mulvaneys
You Must Remember This
Man Crazy
Foxfire
Black Water
Because It Is Bitter, and Because It Is My Heart

Books

The Frenzy
Butcher
Fox
Broke Heart Blues
Zero-Sum
Babysitter
Dark Screams: Volume Six
What You Wish For
Expensive People
Wonderland
them
A Garden of Earthly Delights
We Were the Mulvaneys
You Must Remember This
Man Crazy
Foxfire
Black Water
Because It Is Bitter, and Because It Is My Heart

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