Joyce Carol Oates - Awards & Nominations

Date of Birth	16-June-1938
Place of Birth	Lockport (Niagara County, New York, United States of America)
Nationality	United States of America
Also know as	Rosamond Smith, Lauren Kelly, Rosamond Smith, Lauren Kelly, J. C. Oates
Profession	Editor, Writer, Novelist, Playwright, Author, Poet, Professor, Literary critic, Essayist
Joyce Carol Oates 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. Oates has taught at Princeton University since 1978 and is currently the Roger S. Berlind '52 Professor in the Humanities with the Program in Creative Writing. She expects to teach her last Princeton writing seminar in the fall of 2014, and to formally retire from teaching the following July.

Awards by Joyce Carol Oates

Check all the awards nominated and won by Joyce Carol Oates.

2009

Ivan Sandrof Lifetime Achievement Award

Nominations 2009 »

Award Nominated	Nominated Work
Man Booker International Prize

2008

Nominations 2008 »

Award Nominated	Nominated Work
Sue Feder Historical Mystery	The Gravedigger's Daughter

2007

Nominations 2007 »

Award Nominated	Nominated Work
National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction	The Gravedigger's Daughter
National Book Critics Circle Award for Memoir/Autobiography	The Journals of Joyce Carol Oates, 1973-1982

2006

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Award Nominated	Nominated Work
Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award

2003

Common Wealth Award of Distinguished Service

(Literature)

Nominations 2003 »

Award Nominated	Nominated Work
Edgar Award for Best Short Story	Angel of Wrath Volume: June

2002

Helmerich Award

2001

Nominations 2001 »

Award Nominated	Nominated Work
Pulitzer Prize for Fiction	Blonde

2000

Nominations 2000 »

Award Nominated	Nominated Work
National Book Award for Fiction	Blonde

1997

Nominations 1997 »

Award Nominated	Nominated Work
Locus Award for Best Anthology	American Gothic Tales

1996

PEN/Malamud Award

1995

Bram Stoker Award for Best Novel

Honored for : Zombie

Nominations 1995 »

Award Nominated	Nominated Work
Pulitzer Prize for Fiction	What I Lived For
PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction	What I Lived For
Locus Award for Best Collection	Haunted: Tales of the Grotesque

1993

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Award Nominated	Nominated Work
Pulitzer Prize for Fiction	Black Water

1990

Nominations 1990 »

Award Nominated	Nominated Work
National Book Award for Fiction	Because It Is Bitter, and Because It Is My Heart

1988

St. Louis Literary Award

1974

Nominations 1974 »

Award Nominated	Nominated Work
Edgar Award for Best Short Story	Do with Me What You Will

1972

Nominations 1972 »

Award Nominated	Nominated Work
National Book Award for Fiction	Wonderland

1970

National Book Award for Fiction

Honored for : Them

Nominations 1970 »

Award Nominated	Nominated Work
National Book Award for Fiction	Them

1969

Nominations 1969 »

Award Nominated	Nominated Work
National Book Award for Fiction	Expensive People

1968

Nominations 1968 »

Award Nominated	Nominated Work
National Book Award for Fiction	A Garden of Earthly Delights

1967

Guggenheim Fellowship for Creative Arts, US & Canada	(Fiction)

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