Joyce Carol Oates: Quick Facts

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Also Known As	Rosamond Smith • Lauren Kelly
Born	June 16, 1938 (age 88) • Lockport • New York
Awards And Honors	National Book Award
Notable Works	“A Garden of Earthly Delights” • “A Widow’s Story” • “Black Dahlia and White Rose” • “Black Water” • “Broke Heart Blues” • “Carthage” • “Daddy Love” • “Do with Me What You Will” • “Evil Eye: Four Novellas of Love Gone Wrong” • “Faithless: Tales of Transgression” • “Foxfire: Confessions of a Girl Gang” • “In Rough Country” • “Jack of Spades” • “My Sister, My Love: The Intimate Story of Skyler Rampike” • “The Falls” • “The Lost Landscape: A Writer’s Coming of Age, The” • “The (Other) You” • “Two or Three Things I Forgot to Tell You” • “We Were the Mulvaneys” • “Where I’ve Been, and Where I’m Going” • “Wild Nights!: Stories About the Last Days of Poe, Dickinson, Twain, James, and Hemingway” • “them”