Joyce Carol Oates

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Joyce Carol Oates: A Body in the Service of Mind (2021)

Joyce Carol Oates was born on 16 June 1938 in Lockport, New York, USA. She is a writer and actress, known for Blonde (2022), Vengeance: A Love Story (2017) and Smooth Talk (1985). She was previously married to Charles Gross and Raymond Smith.

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Radio Play Revival
7.4
Podcast Series
- Writer
- 2023
Blonde
5.5
- based on the novel by
- 2022
The Follower
4.8
Short
- based on short story by
- 2019
Creme Noir: Part II
Short
- writer
- 2017
Creme Noir
- based on short story by
- 2017
Double Lover
6.2
- freely adapted from the novel "Lives of the Twins"
- 2017
Vengeance: A Love Story
5.2
- based upon the Novel " Rape: A Love Story" by
- 2017
Foxfire: Confessions of a Girl Gang
6.1
- novel
- 2012
The Gathering Squall
5.9
Short
- based on story by
- 2011
Zombie
8.2
Short
- novella
- 2010
Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?
Short
- Writer
- 2010
Fire
Short
- story
- 2009
Small Avalanches
7.4
Short
- short story
- 2006
Where Are You Going? Where Have You Been?
7.4
Short
- Writer
- 2006
Små skred
5.7
Short
- story "Small Avalanches"
- 2003

Trivia
Was considered by many to be a front-runner for the 2005 Nobel Prize in Literature, along with Margaret Atwood and poet Adonis. The prize ultimately went to playwright Harold Pinter.

Quotes
[on having children] No, I don't think so, but then I was never strongly maternal. My brother also doesn't have children, it could be genetic, but it could be that I was so very interested in writing that I just didn't have time, although I do like children. My role models were childless: Virginia Woolf, Jane Austen, George Eliot, the Brontës.