Joyce Carol Oates (b.1938) is an American author. Oates published her first book in 1963 and has since published over forty novels, as well as a number of plays and novellas, and many volumes of short stories, poetry, and nonfiction. She has won many awards for her writing, including the National Book Award, for her novel them, two O. Henry Awards, and the National Humanities Medal. Her novels Black Water, What I Lived For, and Blonde were nominated for the Pulitzer Prize.
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We are linked by blood, and blood is memory without language.
—Joyce Carol Oates
The worst cynicism: a belief in luck.
—Joyce Carol Oates
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