Former U-Detroit Teacher Joyce Carol Oates Becomes Princeton Professor, 1978

Joyce Carol Oates, or "JCO," (June 16, 1938 - ) is a noted 20th and 21st century American author and is the Roger S. Berlind '52 Professor in the Humanities with the Program in Creative Writing at Princeton University, where she has taught since 1978. Oates is also the editor of the Norton anthology Telling Stories - An Anthology for Writers. She serves as a contributing editor for The Ontario Review, the literary quarterly for which her husband is the editor. Oates received her M.A. from the University of Wisconsin in 1961.

Oates taught at the University of Detroit, publishing her first novel, With Shuddering Fall, when she was 28. Her novel then received the National Book Award in 1970. Oates has also written several books, mostly mystery novels, under the pen names Rosamond Smith and Lauren Kelly. She also taught at the University of Windsor in Canada for ten years before moving to Princeton in 1978. [Source: Wikipedia]