Joyce Carol Oates
Joyce Carol Oates (an haife ta a watan Yuni 16, shekara ta alif ɗari tara da talatin da  takwas1938A.c) marubuciya ƴar Amurka ce. Oates ta buga littafinta na farko a cikin shekara ta alif ɗari tara da sittin da uku1963, kuma tun daga lokacin ta buga litattafai 58, wasan kwaikwayo da litattafai da dama, da kuma tarin gajerun labarai, wakoki, da na almara. Littattafanta aciki akwai Black Water (1992), Abin da Na Rayu Don (1994), da Blonde (2000), da tarin gajerun labaranta The Wheel of Love (1970) da Lovely, Dark, Deep: Stories (2014) sun kasance kowane ’yan wasan karshe na gasar. Pulitzer Prize . Ta lashe lambobin yabo da yawa don rubuce-rubucenta, gami da lambar yabo ta National Book Award,  littafinta akwai wacce ta wallafa a shekara ta (1969), lambar yabo ta O. Henry guda biyu, Medal Humanities na ƙasa, da lambar yabo ta Urushalima (2019).

Oates ta koyar a Jami'ar Princeton daga shekara ta 1978 izuwa shekara ta 2014, kuma shine Roger S. Berlind '52 Farfesa ne kuma Emerita a cikin Humanities a harshen turanci tare da Shirin a Rubutun Ƙirƙira.  Tun daga shekara ta 2016, ta kasance farfesa mai ziyara a Jami'ar California, Berkeley, inda take koyar da gajeren almara a cikin semesters na bazara. 

An zaɓi Oates ga Ƙungiyar Falsafa ta Amurka a cikin 2016.