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Novelist JOYCE CAROL OATES
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Joyce Carol Oates's book "Black Water" was nominated for the 1992 National Book Critics Circle Award.
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Novelist JOYCE CAROL OATES. The prolific writer has penned 23 novels, in addition to plays, poems, short stories and criticism. Her new novel is called "Foxfire: Confessions of a Girl Gang,"(Dutton) about a group of high school girls who form a violent gang in upstate New York during the Fifties. Their mission is violence against men. OATES is a professor of humanities at Princeton University. Her previous book is the critically acclaimed "Black Water," nominated for the 1992 National Book Critics Circle Award
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