"The ideal art, the noblest of art: working with the comple… - Joyce Carol Oates

"The ideal art, the noblest of art: working with the complexities of life, refusing to simplify, to "overcome" doubt."

Joyce Carol Oates

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Joyce Carol Oates (born June 16, 1938) is an American author who has published 58 novels, plays and novellas, as well as volumes of short stories, poetry, and nonfiction. 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. She is a visiting professor at the University of California, Berkeley where she teaches short fiction.

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