

Her grandmother lived with them until she died, and was the first person to encourage Joyce’s writing. Her younger sister was born with severe autism, and Joyce Carol Oates has mentioned that she spent her childhood scrambling for recognition due to her mother’s attention being taken up by her sister. She spent her childhood on her family farm, where she was part of a close-knit family. She was born in 1938 in New York as the oldest child of Carolina and Frederic Oates. She is the recipient of many distinguished awards including the Common Wealth Award for Distinguished Service in Literature , The Kenyon Review Award for Literary Achievement, the Chicago Tribune Lifetime Achievement Award, and The Norman Mailer Prize for Lifetime Achievement.Joyce Carol Oates is an American author with a very impressive resume that she has managed to put together throughout her life. Berlind Distinguished Professor of the Humanities at Princeton University and has been a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters since 1978. In 2013, she received the Bram Stoker Award for Best Fiction Collection for Black Dahlia and White Swan. Oates is the Roger S.

Her next novel Breathe will be published in August 2021. The Stars. Her most recent works, published with HarperCollins, include the poetry collection American Melancholy (2021) and a collection of stories The (Other) You (2021). She has published numerous essays and memoirs, novellas, plays, children's and young adult fiction, and dozens of works of short fiction, poetry, and fiction, including We Were the Mulvaneys and Blonde (a finalist for the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize), as well as the New York Times bestsellers The Falls (winner of the 2005 Prix Femina Etranger) and The Gravedigger’s Daughter, A Book of American Martyrs, and the most recent, Hazards of Time Travel, My Life as a Rat, and Night. The Lillian Vernon Creative Writers House is wheelchair accessible with at least two weeks advance notice for this or any other accommodations, please call the Creative Writing Program at 212.998.8816 or email Carol Oates is a recipient of the National Book Award and the PEN/Malamud Award for Excellence in Short Fiction. NYU students and employees should be prepared to show a Violet Go pass and an NYU ID. anyone who is not a current NYU student or employee) should be prepared to present proof of compliance and a government-issued ID if asked to do so. All attendees must be in compliance with NYU’s COVID-19 vaccination requirements (fully vaccinated and boosted, once eligible and by NYU’s deadline). All attendees are required to RSVP in advance please click here. Readings by Joanna Milstein and Joyce Carol Oates, a conversation/Q&A with Darin Strauss, and a reception/signing. Please see below for more info about the authors. Joanna Milstein and Joyce Carol Oates in conversation with Darin Strauss New Salon: Fiction Writers in Conversation
