# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/joyce-carol-oates
# Generated: 2026-08-14T10:31:24.740Z

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url: "https://fame.am/person/joyce-carol-oates"
name: "Joyce Carol Oates"
slug: "joyce-carol-oates"
description: "Joyce Carol Oates is an American writer. Oates published her first book in 1963, and has since published 58 novels, a number of plays and novellas, and many volumes of short stories, poetry, and nonfiction. Her novels Black Water (1992), What I Lived For (1994), and Blonde (2000), and her short story collection Lovely, Dark, Deep: Stories (2014) were each finalists for the Pulitzer Prize. She has won many awards for her writing, including the National Book Award for her novel Them (1969), two O. Henry Awards, the National Humanities Medal, and the Jerusalem Prize (2019)."
tagline: "American author (born 1938)"
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birthDate: "1938-06-16"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
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  country:  null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump