Joyce Carol Oates (1938- ) is a 20th century American novelist known for being nearly as outrageously prolific as contemporary novelist Stephen King.
She teaches in the English department at Princeton University, where she is said to have a long-standing rivalry with another Princeton professor, Nobel Prize winner Toni Morrison.
Oates has written several books under the psudonym of Rosamond Smith.
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