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 non-fiction. 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).

16 June 1938

Born on the same birth date (16 June 1938): Thomas Boyd-Carpenter • Torgny Lindgren

Born on the same birth day (16 June): Christian Tshimanga Kabeya • Claire Alexander • Clifton Collins Jr. • Dainius Zubrus • Diana DeGarmo • Germanos Karavangelis • Helen Traubel • Hemant Kumar • Henrietta of England • Jean d'Ormesson • Joseph May • Jürgen Klopp • Leeona Dorrian, Lady Dorrian • Marga Faulstich • Mary Katharine Goddard • Matthew Saad Muhammad • Olivier Roumat • Phil Christophers • Siya Kolisi • Steven Whittaker • Thomas Boyd-Carpenter

Born in the same month (June 1938): Billy Davis Jr. • Billy Mills • Billy Williams • Charles Wuorinen • David Hope, Baron Hope of Craighead • George William Penrose, Lord Penrose • Giles Havergal • Ian St John • Jeremy Hardie • Joan Kirner • John Harvard (politician) • Karin Balzer • Kevin Murray (Australian footballer) • Mickie Most • Moira Anderson • Neil Abercrombie • S. Sivamaharajah • Simon Douglas-Pennant, 7th Baron Penrhyn • Thomas Boyd-Carpenter • Vasanti N. Bhat-Nayak • Violetta Villas