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 - Age, Bio, Faces and Birthday

Currently, Joyce Carol Oates is 86 years, 5 months and 8 days old. Joyce Carol Oates will celebrate 87rd birthday on a Monday 16th of June 2025. Below we countdown to Joyce Carol Oates upcoming birthday.

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Popular As	Joyce Carol Oates
Occupation	Novelist
Age	86 years old
Zodiac Sign	Gemini
Born	June 16, 1938 (Lockport, NY)
Birthday	June 16
Town/City	Lockport, NY
Nationality	NY

🌙 Zodiac

Joyce Carol Oates’s zodiac sign is Gemini. According to astrologers, Gemini is expressive and quick-witted, it represents two different personalities in one and you will never be sure which one you will face. They are sociable, communicative and ready for fun, with a tendency to suddenly get serious, thoughtful and restless. They are fascinated with the world itself, extremely curious, with a constant feeling that there is not enough time to experience everything they want to see.

🌙 Chinese Zodiac Signs

Joyce Carol Oates was born in the Year of the Tiger. Those born under the Chinese Zodiac sign of the Tiger are authoritative, self-possessed, have strong leadership qualities, are charming, ambitious, courageous, warm-hearted, highly seductive, moody, intense, and they’re ready to pounce at any time. Compatible with Horse or Dog.

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.