Joyce Carol Oates
American author · United States · On the map · Writers · Born 1938 · age 88
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.
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Flannery O'Connor Influenced Joyce- Peter Werner Directed In the Region of Ice (1976)
Laurent Cantet Directed Foxfire (2013)
Andrew Dominik Directed Blonde (2022)
Harold Becker Produced Vengeance: A Love Story (2017)
Jeremy Kleiner Produced Blonde (2022)
Tim Hunter Directed Lies of the Twins (1991)- Bradford Morrow Influenced by Joyce
Martin Rosen Produced Smooth Talk (1985)
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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).
