WRITER

Joyce Carol Oates

1938 - Today

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Joyce Carol Oates (born June 16, 1938) 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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Joyce Carol Oates has received more than 2,678,941 page views. Her biography is available in 45 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 40 in 2019). Joyce Carol Oates is the 937th most popular writer (up from 1,338th in 2019), the 1,058th most popular biography from United States (up from 1,693rd in 2019) and the 102nd most popular American Writer.

Joyce Carol Oates is most famous for her novels. She has written over 50 novels and short story collections.

Memorability Metrics

  • 2.7M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 62.28

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 45

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.57

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.97

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

Marya
1986
Blonde
Fiction
A fictional recreation of the life of Marilyn Monroe recounts the tale of her rise to stardom, as seen from Marilyn's perspective
20004 / 5
Them
1969
I'll Take You There
2002

Page views of Joyce Carol Oates by language

Over the past year Joyce Carol Oates has had the most page views in the with 353,468 views, followed by French (63,376), and Italian (32,634). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Ido (157.87%), Belarusian (116.13%), and Latin (98.10%)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Joyce Carol Oates ranks 937 out of 7,302. Before her are Aimé Césaire, Thomas Pynchon, Jean de La Bruyère, Mirza Fatali Akhundov, Lafcadio Hearn, and Ouyang Xiu. After her are Carlos Ruiz Zafón, Leconte de Lisle, Rustichello da Pisa, Nellie Bly, James Jones, and Pierre Larousse.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1938, Joyce Carol Oates ranks 57. Before her are Kurt Wüthrich, Viktor Chernomyrdin, Frederick Forsyth, Issey Miyake, Lynn Margulis, and Oliver Reed. After her are Brian Dennehy, Marcello Gandini, István Szabó, Dean Reed, Bounnhang Vorachith, and Ed Lauter.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Joyce Carol Oates ranks 1,058 out of 20,380. Before her are Edward Norton Lorenz (1917), Gary Sinise (1955), Ed O'Neill (1946), Jack Kirby (1917), Groucho Marx (1890), and Frank B. Kellogg (1856). After her are Alicia Keys (1981), Nellie Bly (1864), James Jones (1921), John Hasbrouck Van Vleck (1899), Julian Schwinger (1918), and Peggy Guggenheim (1898).

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Among WRITERS In United States

Among writers born in United States, Joyce Carol Oates ranks 102. Before her are Sherwood Anderson (1876), L. Ron Hubbard (1911), Walter Lippmann (1889), Thomas Wolfe (1900), Clifford D. Simak (1904), and Thomas Pynchon (1937). After her are Nellie Bly (1864), James Jones (1921), L. Frank Baum (1856), Virginia Satir (1916), Stephen Covey (1932), and Donna Leon (1942).

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