Joyce Carol Oates net worth and salary: Joyce Carol Oates is a Novelist who has a net worth of $160 billion. Joyce Carol Oates was born in Lockport, in June 16, 1938. American author of numerous novels, short stories, plays, poems, and essays. She received the National Book Award for her 1969 novel, them, and was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize for Black Water (1992), What I Lived For (1994), and Blonde (2000).
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💰Joyce Carol Oates Net worth: $160 billion (Updated at 15 March 2019)

About

American author of numerous novels, short stories, plays, poems, and essays. She received the National Book Award for her 1969 novel, them, and was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize for Black Water (1992), What I Lived For (1994), and Blonde (2000).

Before Fame

She began writing at age fourteen and was the first in her family to finish high school. She graduated at the top of her class at Syracuse University in 1960 and published her first novel, With Shuddering Fall, four years later.

Trivia

She received the 1967 O. Henry Award for her short story, In the Region of Ice. A decade later, she began teaching creative writing at Princeton University.

Family Life

She married Raymond J. Smith in 1961. Smith died suddenly of pneumonia in 2008, ending the couple's nearly four decade-long marriage. In 2009, she married Charles Gross.