![]() Oates eventually drew on aspects of her grandmother's life in writing the novel The Gravedigger's Daughter (2007). After Blanche's death, Joyce learned that Blanche's father had killed himself. 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", but her childhood as "a daily scramble for existence". (Lynn Ann has autism and is institutionalized, and Oates has not seen her since 1971. ![]() Her brother, Fred Jr., and sister, Lynn Ann, were born in 19, respectively. She grew up on her parents' farm outside the town. Oates was born in Lockport, New York, the eldest of three children of Carolina ( née Bush), a homemaker of Hungarian descent, and Frederic James Oates, a tool and die designer. Oates was elected to the American Philosophical Society in 2016. Since 2016, she has been a visiting professor at the University of California, Berkeley, where she teaches short fiction in the spring semesters. Berlind '52 Professor Emerita in the Humanities with the Program in Creative Writing. Oates taught at Princeton University from 1978 to 2014, and is the Roger S. ![]() Henry Awards, the National Humanities Medal, and the Jerusalem Prize (2019). She has won many awards for her writing, including the National Book Award, for her novel them (1969), two O. Her novels Black Water (1992), What I Lived For (1994), and Blonde (2000), and her short story collections The Wheel of Love (1970) and Lovely, Dark, Deep: Stories (2014) were each finalists for the Pulitzer Prize. ![]() 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 non-fiction. Joyce Carol Oates (born June 16, 1938) is an American writer. ![]()
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