Joyce Carol Oates
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- Date of Birth
- 06/16/1938 (71 years old)
- Place of Birth
- Lockport, NY
- High School
- Williamsville High School
- Undergrad
- Syracuse University
- Graduate
- University of Wisconsin
- Neighborhood
- Princeton, NJ
- Filed Under
- Books
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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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