Joyce Carol Oates Biography

Joyce Carol Oates

American narrator, born in Lockport (New York) in 1938.Famous for the generous doses of violence that she has thrown into her stories and novels, she is considered one of the most outstanding followers of the narrative trend inaugurated by William Faulkner.

After beginning her higher studies in English Language and Literature at the University of Syracuse, she ended up completing them at the University of Wisconsin, from where she graduated with a degree.Later, she obtained a doctorate in this matter from Rice University, while combining this specialization with her dedication to the cultivation of fiction literature.

Joyce Carol Oates

One of her first stories was selected, with an honorable mention, to be part of an anthology of the best stories written by North American authors, which definitively oriented Joyce Carol Oates towards the genre of fictional prose.

In 1963 he gave the press his first collection of stories, published under the title of Along with the North gate, saw the light .A year later, encouraged by the good reception provided by critics and readers, the young writer presented her first long novel, entitled A trembling autumn (1964), which was followed by a new volume of stories , On an overwhelming torrent , appeared in 1965.

Such a dizzying literary career then pointed towards a much more ambitious goal: the publication of a narrative trilogy.Indeed, in 1967 the first installment of this series saw the light, A garden of earthly delights , immediately followed by Wealthy People , which was awarded the National Narrative Prize 1968.A year later, Oates returned to peek into bookstore windows with the third and final installment of his trilogy, entitled They (1969), a novel that culminated in a splendid sample of the Best American Fiction Prose of the Sixties.

The critic was quick to highlight the greatest virtues of Oates's prose, among which the dense life experience accumulated by her characters and the disconcerting environment in which the author places them stand out: a literary space where the Social realism coexists in perfect symbiosis with the best ingredients of the Gothic novel, and in which a torrential current of violence is generated that often ends in a bloody ending, marked by the murder or annihilation of the destructive elements themselves.Most of its characters are women, through whose experiences Oates makes an interesting sociological analysis about the violence that men exert on them and the country's own social structure.

After a long period of silence literary, in the late 1970s Joyce Carol Oates returned to the bestseller lists with her novel Bellefleur (1980).Subsequently, he has published Time will pass (1988), Because it is bitter, because it is my heart (1990), Black water (1992), Confessions of a girl in the band (1993), Zombi (1995) and Will you always love me? (1996), works in which continues to uphold his constant denunciation of the moral degradation into which a large part of contemporary American society has fallen.In 2000 she published Blonde.A novel about Marilyn Monroe .