Joyce Carol Oates started receiving praise for her writing at the young age of 19 when she received the "College Short Story Contest" by Mademoiselle magazine.
Like fellow American author John Updike, whose four-part series the Rabbit Series received international awards per book, Oates' four-part series The Wonderland Quartet catapulted her into fiction stardom.
Consisting of the four novels:
All four received nominations for the National Book Award for Fiction but only them received the honor.
Throughout her life, Joyce Carol Oates has published 56 novels, 30 short-story collections and 8 volumes of poetry.
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