Joyce Carol Oates
Born
in Lockport, New York, The United States
June 16, 1938
Website
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Genre
Influences
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We Were the Mulvaneys
68 editions
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1996
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Blonde
13 editions
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2000
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The Falls
72 editions
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2004
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The Gravedigger's Daughter
73 editions
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2007
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Zombie
43 editions
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1995
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Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?
19 editions
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1966
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Black Water
52 editions
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published
1992
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Foxfire: Confessions of a Girl Gang
58 editions
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published
1993
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My Life as a Rat
37 editions
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published
2019
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Rape: A Love Story
14 editions
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published
2003
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“Reading is the sole means by which we slip, involuntarily, often helplessly, into another's skin, another's voice, another's soul.”
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April 2016 New School Classic Group Read
1927, To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf, 209 pages
1966, The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov, 407 pages
1973, Breakfast of Champions by Kurt Vonnegut, 302 pages
1961, Revolutionary Road by Richard Yates, 346 pages
1969, The Godfather by Mario Puzo, 448 pages
1905, Where Angels Fear to Tread by E.M. Forster, 147 pages
1963, The Clocks by Agatha Christie, 381 pages
1961, Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert A. Heinlein, 528 pages
1962, The Man in the High Castle by Philip K. Dick, 259 pages
1994, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami, 607 pages
1900, Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad, 455 pages
1937, Christ in Concrete by Pietro Di Donato, 256 pages
1957, The Midwich Cuckoos by John Wyndham, 220 pages
1969, them by Joyce Carol Oates, 576 pages
1962, Big Sur by Jack Kerouac, 256 pages
1957, The Door Into Summer by Robert A. Heinlein, 304 pages
1929, Cimarron by Edna Ferber, 400 pages
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