Joyce Carol Oates

Joyce Carol Oates, the author most recently of the novels The Gravedigger's Daughter and Black Girl, White Girl, is a recipient of the National Book Award, the PEN/Malamud Award for Distinguished Service in Literature, and other literary honors. She is one of our country's leading fiction writers. In addition, she is also a distinguished poet, playwright, and essayist who has been a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters since 1978. At Princeton University, she holds the Roger S. Berlind 52 Professorship in the Humanities and is a Professor of Creative Writing in the University Center for Creative and Performing Arts. She received a Guggenheim Fellowship in fiction in 1968 and has been a trustee of the Foundation since 1997. Oates was married to Raymond J. Smith from 1961 to 2008, and Charles G. Gross from 2009 to 2019. They are each deceased. In the early and mid-1960s, Oates taught at the University of Detroit. She then taught at the University of Windsor, in Ontario, Canada, from 1968 to 1978. She has been teaching at Princeton University ever since.