Joyce Carol Oates

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Place of Birth
Lockport, NY
High School
Williamsville High School
Undergrad
Syracuse University
Graduate
University of Wisconsin
Neighborhood
Princeton, NJ
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A creative writing professor at Princeton, a mentor to many (past protégés include Jonathan Safran Foer, Richard Greenberg, and Jonathan Ames), and a constant New Yorker contributor, epically prolific Oates is a literary legend whose fiction and non-fiction revel in the bleak and the violent.

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