Novelist
Joyce Carol Oates
One of the most prolific American novelists alive, with more than sixty novels alongside plays, poetry and criticism. Born in Lockport, New York.
Joyce Carol Oates is an American writer. Oates published her first book in 1963, and has since published 58 novels, a number of plays and novellas, and many volumes of short stories, poetry, and nonfiction. Her novels Black Water (1992), What I Lived For (1994), and Blonde (2000), and her short story collection Lovely, Dark, Deep: Stories (2014) were each finalists for the Pulitzer Prize. She has won many awards for her writing, including the National Book Award for her novel Them (1969), two O. Henry Awards, the National Humanities Medal, and the Jerusalem Prize (2019).
- Born
- 1938-06-16, Lockport, New York, USAA Thursday
- At birth
- Sun in Gemini, Moon in Aquarius
- Nationality
- United States
- Birth-time source
- No birth time on record: Rodden X
Born
At birth
Nationality
Birth-time sourceBirth Chart
1938-06-16, Lockport, New York, USA · time unknown, noon chart
America/New_Yorkthe zone used then
America/New_YorkThe chart
| Body | Sign | Degree | Motion |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sun | Gemini | 24°49′ | Direct |
| Moon | Aquarius | 4°53′ | Direct |
| Mercury | Gemini | 17°13′ | Direct |
| Venus | Cancer | 27°35′ | Direct |
| Mars | Cancer | 6°21′ | Direct |
| Jupiter | Pisces | 2°12′ | Direct |
| Saturn | Aries | 16°25′ | Direct |
| Uranus | Taurus | 16°01′ | Direct |
| Neptune | Virgo | 18°26′ | Direct |
| Pluto | Cancer | 28°42′ | Direct |
Joyce Carol Oates is alive, so there is one chart here rather than two. The death chart is cast for a documented moment of death and there is nothing to cast one for, which is the point: this site does not estimate either end.
Their Astrocartography
Where each planet sat on one of the four angles at the moment Joyce Carol Oates was born. Tap a line to read what the tradition associates with it.
Cast for noon, as the birth time is unknown, so the longitudes are approximate.