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One of America's most prolific and honored writers of works such as Black Girl, White Girl and You Must Remember This

Joyce Carol Oates is one of America's most versatile, serious writers, the author of a number of distinguished books in several genres, all published within the past twenty-five years. In addition to numerous novels and short story collections, she has published several volumes of poetry, several books of plays, five books of literary criticism, and the book-length essay On Boxing. John Gardner has called her "one of the greatest writers of our time."

Her writing has earned her much praise and many awards, including the 2005 Prix Femina, France’s literary prize for the best novel published in their country, 2004 Fairfax Prize for Lifetime Achievement in the Literary Arts, PEN/Malamud Award for Excellence in short fiction, the Rosenthal Award from the American Academy - Institute of Arts and Letters, a Guggenheim Fellowship, the O'Henry Prize for Continued Achievement in the Short Story, the National Book Award for her novel Them, and in 1978, membership in the American Academy-Institute. What I Lived For was nominated for the 1995 PEN/Faulkner Award. In 1999 she was nominated for the Nobel Prize for the third time.

Often Oates's "vision" is that of a highly complex America populated with presumably ordinary families who experience common yet intense emotions and relationships and who frequently encounter violence. Her ambition is to create a fictional world that mirrors the ambiguity and felt experience of the real world of her time.

On the occasion of the publication of You Must Remember This, critic James Atlas called it "an American Masterpiece." Also said of Oates's writing in general: "The engine of Oates's immense talent is powered by a fecund imagination and an immense knowledge of literature, as all her writing – both fiction and nonfiction -- made plain."

Her newest novel, Black Girl/White Girl, was published in October 2006. High Lonesome: Selected Stories, 1966-2006, published in early 2006, is a collection of her short stories combined with eleven new stories. Uncensored: Views & (Re)views (HarperCollins 2005) is Joyce Carol Oates's most candid gathering of prose pieces since (Woman) Writer: Occasions & Opportunities. Her ninth book of nonfiction, it brings together thirty-eight diverse and provocative pieces of literary criticism from the New York Review of Books, the Times Literary Supplement, and the New York Times Book Review.





	Authors Salman Rushdie \| Sarah Vowell \| Joyce Carol Oates \| Eric Schlosser \| Daniel Handler Monday, Jan. 24, 2011 Joyce Carol Oates One of America's most prolific and honored writers of works such as Black Girl, White Girl and You Must Remember This Joyce Carol Oates is one of America's most versatile, serious writers, the author of a number of distinguished books in several genres, all published within the past twenty-five years. In addition to numerous novels and short story collections, she has published several volumes of poetry, several books of plays, five books of literary criticism, and the book-length essay On Boxing. John Gardner has called her "one of the greatest writers of our time." Her writing has earned her much praise and many awards, including the 2005 Prix Femina, France’s literary prize for the best novel published in their country, 2004 Fairfax Prize for Lifetime Achievement in the Literary Arts, PEN/Malamud Award for Excellence in short fiction, the Rosenthal Award from the American Academy - Institute of Arts and Letters, a Guggenheim Fellowship, the O'Henry Prize for Continued Achievement in the Short Story, the National Book Award for her novel Them, and in 1978, membership in the American Academy-Institute. What I Lived For was nominated for the 1995 PEN/Faulkner Award. In 1999 she was nominated for the Nobel Prize for the third time. Often Oates's "vision" is that of a highly complex America populated with presumably ordinary families who experience common yet intense emotions and relationships and who frequently encounter violence. Her ambition is to create a fictional world that mirrors the ambiguity and felt experience of the real world of her time. On the occasion of the publication of You Must Remember This, critic James Atlas called it "an American Masterpiece." Also said of Oates's writing in general: "The engine of Oates's immense talent is powered by a fecund imagination and an immense knowledge of literature, as all her writing – both fiction and nonfiction -- made plain." Her newest novel, Black Girl/White Girl, was published in October 2006. High Lonesome: Selected Stories, 1966-2006, published in early 2006, is a collection of her short stories combined with eleven new stories. Uncensored: Views & (Re)views (HarperCollins 2005) is Joyce Carol Oates's most candid gathering of prose pieces since (Woman) Writer: Occasions & Opportunities. Her ninth book of nonfiction, it brings together thirty-eight diverse and provocative pieces of literary criticism from the New York Review of Books, the Times Literary Supplement, and the New York Times Book Review.