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A tribute to the brilliant craftsmanship of one of our most distinguished writers, providing valuable insight into her inspiration and her method Joyce Carol Oates is widely regarded as one of America's greatest contemporary literary figures. Having written in a number of genres --... read more

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As a child I took for granted what seems wonderful to me now: that, from first through fifth grades, during the years 1943-1948, I attended the same single-room schoolhouse in western New York that my mother, Carolina Bush, had attended twenty years before.

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  1. Joyce Carol Oates (Author)
 

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