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Joyce Carol Oates

JOYCE CAROL OATES is the author of many works of fiction, poetry, and nonfiction. She is the editor of New Jersey Noir, Prison Noir, A Darker Shade of Noir: New Stories of Body Horror by Women Writers, and Cutting Edge: New Stories of Mystery and Crime by Women Writers. Oates is a recipient of the National Book Award, PEN America's Lifetime Achievement Award, the National Humanities Medal, and a World Fantasy Award for Short Fiction. She lives in Princeton, New Jersey.

Personality Profile For Joyce Carol Oates

Joyce Carol Oates

The following is a personality profile of Joyce Carol Oates based on her work.

Joyce Carol Oates is a bit compulsive.

She is empathetic, she feels what others feel and is compassionate towards them. She is intermittent as well: she has a hard time sticking with difficult tasks for a long period of time. But, Joyce Carol Oates is also laid-back: she appreciates a relaxed pace in life.

More than most people, her choices are driven by a desire for self-expression.

Considers helping others to guide a large part of what she does: she thinks it is important to take care of the people around him. She is also relatively unconcerned with tradition: she cares more about making her own path than following what others have done.


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