JOYCE CAROL OATES

Joyce Carol Oates is a National Book Award-winning novelist, short-story writer, poet, and essayist whose career spans over six decades. She has authored more than seventy books, including bestselling novels Blonde, We Were the Mulvaneys, and Them, and has received the National Humanities Medal, the Jerusalem Prize, and multiple Pulitzer Prize nominations. Oates’ fiction, essays, and poetry probe identity, family, morality, and the darker currents of American life. Her recent works include Butcher (2024), Fox (2025), and The Frenzy (2026), demonstrating her enduring mastery of narrative and psychological insight. She is the Roger S. Berlind Distinguished Professor of the Humanities at Princeton University and remains one of the most influential voices in contemporary literature.