Oates’s first book, “By the North Gate,” a collection of short stories, was accepted for publication in 1962, when she was twenty-three. She had just finished a master’s in English, at the University of Wisconsin.
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Oates’s first book, “By the North Gate,” a collection of short stories, was accepted for publication in 1962, when she was twenty-three. She had just finished a master’s in English, at the University of Wisconsin.