Joyce Carol Oates, an award-winning American writer, is now injured. She posted the picture of her foot on her Twitter on 15 August 2020, which showed burned a-like injury on her foot. The 82-year-old acclaimed novelist tweeted an image of her foot with boils and blisters in it. She wrote, 'so important to wear proper hiking shoes. Never/ever walk in the woods in sandals. The instep of my left foot this morning--poison ivy? Poison oak? must've stepped in something.'
The injury has left her seeking medical help, subsequently seeing a doctor for treatment. She added, 'I have subsequently seen a doctor, [I] am taking antibiotics, and [I] have steroid cream.' She further wrote, 'Also had a tetanus shot. Pain and itching have subsided. The moral is proper footwear!'
Joyce Carol Oates foot injury (©: Twitter/Joyce Carol Oates)
Also, Oates thanked everyone for their suggestions & sympathy. Currently, she is under the medication and treatment for her foot blisters.
Joyce Carol Oates' Net Worth And Books
Joyce Carol Oates has an estimated net worth of $19 Million, which she acquires as a writer. As a renowned writer, Oates has more than fifty-eight novels in her career account. She has an outstanding career as a novelist, short-stories writer, and essayist.
Some of her notable books include A Garden of Earthly Delights (1967), Them (1969), Do with Me What You Will (1973), Zombie (1995), The Falls (2004), Mudwoman (2012), Daddy Love (2013), Jack of Spades (2015), Night. Sleep. Death. The Stars. (2020), and more.
Jack of Spades by Joyce Carol Oates (©: Goodreads)
Similarly, she has a couple of fiction Big Mouth & Ugly Girl (2002) and Two or Three Things I Forgot to Tell You (2012) in her list. Moreover, she brought several collections of short-stories including Faithless: Tales of Transgression (2001), High Lonesome: New & Selected Stories (2006), Black Dahlia and White Rose (2012), and others.
Under her fictional name of Lauren Kelly and Rosamond Smith, she wrote poetry, prose, literary criticism and reviews, and essays.
Apart from that, she wrote scripts of several movies and productions, including Lies of the Twins (1991), Blonde (2001), Foxfire: Confessions of a Girl Gang (2012), Double Lover (2017), The Follower (2019), and many more.
Moreover, Joyce Carol Oates provides a platform for several aspiring writers and teaches how to tap into someone's storytelling instincts. You can get into connection with the renowned writer through here, Joyce Carol Oates Masterclass.
Joyce Carol Oates Married Life
Joyce Carol Oates, age 82, has been married twice in her lifetime. Initially, she was married to her first husband, named Raymond Joseph Smith. Oates and her first hubby first met at the University of Wisconsin, where Smith was a professor. Smith was also an author, educator, and a book editor.
They initiated the love life and eventually tied their nuptial knot in 1961. The couple's relationship was one of the longest bonds as they cherish forty-seven years together, full of love and understandings. However, Smith lost his life on 8 February 2008, leaving Joyce Carol Oates as a widow after nearly five decades of their wedding.
Oates chronicled a book entitled 'A Widow's Story' after her first husband died.
Joyce Carol Oates and her late husband, Charles Gross (©: nydailynews.com)
After a year of Raymond Smith's death, Oates moved on in another relationship with late Charles Gross, a longtime Princeton professor of neuroscience. They exchanged their wedding vows in 2009.
The lovebirds were on a great excursion of their love life, but once again, Joyce Carol Oates was left alone as Charles Gross died of cancer in 2019. He was 83 when he lost his life. Joyce Carol Oates does not have any children amid her relationship with late Raymond Joseph Smith and Charles Gross.