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Joyce Carol Oates was born on June 16, 1938, in Lockport, New York, the oldest of Frederic and Caroline Oates's three children. The family lived on a farm owned by Caroline's parents. Joyce's father was a tool designer, and her mother was a housewife.
Violence marred the lives of Oates and her recent ancestors: Oates's mother's biological father was murdered in 1917, which led to Oates mother's informal adoption. At age fourteen, Oates's paternal grandmother Blanche survived an attempted murder-suicide at the hands of her own father.
Joyce Carol Oates, American novelist, short-story writer, and essayist known for her vast literary output in a variety of styles and genres. She won a National Book Award for her 1969 novel them. Learn more about Oates’s life and career, including her other notable books.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
14 de set. de 2015 · These days Oates lives in a big house in Princeton, N.J., which is filled with quilts her mother made, her father's childhood violin, family photos, and other mementos from her childhood.
- Lynn Neary
20 de nov. de 2023 · At the end of the essay, “little girl Joyce” realizes with horror that the chicken who was supposed to be narrating her life is no longer on her family farm, and that she may have unknowingly...
- Rachel Aviv
14 de mai. de 2019 · Her grandmother, who fled persecution in Germany in the late 19th century, helped foster Oates’ love of books, giving her a copy of “Alice in Wonderland” and a library card at a young age.
22 de ago. de 2022 · 1943: Joyce Carol Oates with her father, Frederic Oates, at the family farmhouse in upstate New York. Frederic and Carolina Oates had three children: Joyce born in 1938 (Bloomsday: June 16), Fred born in 1943, and Lynn in 1956.
