![]() Her paternal grandmother, Blanche Woodside, lived with the family and was "very close" to Joyce. ![]() Oates grew up in the working-class farming community of Millersport, New York, and characterized hers as "a happy, close-knit and unextraordinary family for our time, place and economic status". Her brother, Fred Jr., was born in 1943, and her sister, Lynn Ann, w ho is severely autistic, was born b orn in 1956. She was raised Catholic but Catholic but is now atheist. She is the eldest of three children of Carolina (n€e Bush), a homemaker of Hungarian descent, and Frederic James Oates, a tool and die designer. Life and career Early life and education Oates was born in Lockport, New York. Berlind '52 Professor in the Humanities with the Program in Creative Writing. Oates has taught at Princeton University since 1978 and is currently the Roger S. Her novels Black Water (1992), What I Lived For (1994), and Blonde (2000) were nominated for the Pulitzer Prize. Henry Awards, and the National Humanities Medal. She has won many awards for her writing, including the National Book Award, for her novel them (1969), two O. Published over forty novels, as well as a number of plays and novellas, and many volumes of short stories, poetry, and nonfiction. Oates published her first book in 1963 and has since Joyce Carol Oates (born June 16, 1938) is an American author. Henry Award 1970 National Book Award 2010 National Humanities Medal 2012 Stone Award for Lifetime Literary Achievement Spouse ![]() Novelist, short story writer, playwright, poet, literary critic, professor, editorġ973 O. ![]()
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