#497: Joyce Carol Oates — A Writing Icon on Creative Process and Creative Living

Well hello boys and girls, this is Tim Ferris. Welcome to another episode of the Tim Ferris Show, where it is my job, my privilege to attempt to deconstruct world class performers from all different fields. My guest today is a writing Icon Joyce Carol Oates.

Joyce Carroll Oates is the author of novels, short story collections, poetry volumes, plays, essays, and criticism, including the national bestsellers, We Were the Mulvaney's, Blonde, and A Widow's Story. Among her many honors are the National Book Award, the Pan America Award, the National Humanities Medal, the 2019 Jerusalem Prize, and the 2020 Sino Del Duca World Prize for Literature. Oates is the Roger S. Berlin Distinguished Professor of the Humanities at Princeton University and has been a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters since nineteen seventy eight. So that is the approved Bio. There are a few other things I would like to say though, because I think Joyce

Certainly. Is prone. to understandably understating Her prodigious Talents. She has published and again, this is getting into semi non fact check territory, but I think I do have most of these right. She has published around sixty novels.

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