Joyce Carol Oates

Joyce Carol Oates is an American writer who published her first book in 1963 and has since written 58 novels, including Black Water, Blonde, and What I Lived For, as well as short story collections such as Lovely, Dark, Deep. Her novel Them won the National Book Award in 1969, and she taught at Princeton from 1978 to 2014 before holding visiting posts at Berkeley and now teaching at Rutgers.