The Falls

joyce carol oates

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Genres fictionhistorical fictionliterary fictioncontemporarybook clubnovelsthe united states of americaamericanliteraturefamily

481 pages, Paperback

First published January 1,2004

Literary awards

orange prize, prix femina,

Places

niagara falls new york, the united states of america,

This edition

Format: 481 pages, Paperback
Published: January 1, 2004 by Perennial
ISBN: 9780965434973
ASIN: 0965434974
Language: English

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About the author

joyce carol oates

Joyce Carol Oates is an American writer. Oates published her first book in 1963, and has since published 58 novels, a number of plays and novellas, and many volumes of short stories, poetry, and nonfiction. Her novels Black Water (1992), What I Lived For (1994), and Blonde (2000), and her short story collections The Wheel of Love (1970) and Lovely, Dark, Deep: Stories (2014) were each finalists for the Pulitzer Prize. She has won many awards for her writing, including the National Book Award, for her novel Them (1969), two O. Henry Awards, the National Humanities Medal, and the Jerusalem Prize (2019).
Oates taught at Princeton University from 1978 to 2014, and is the Roger S. Berlind '52 Professor Emerita in the Humanities with the Program in Creative Writing. From 2016 to 2020, she was a visiting professor at the University of California, Berkeley, where she taught short fiction in the spring semesters. She now teaches at Rutgers University, New Brunswick.
Oates was elected to the American Philosophical Society in 2016.
Pseudonyms: Rosamond Smith and Lauren Kelly.