Cynthia Ozick (born April 17, 1928, New York City), is an American short story writer, novelist, and essayist.
She earned her B.A. from New York University and went on to study English Literature at Ohio State University, where she completed an M.A.
Ozick's fiction and essays are often about Jewish American life, but she also writes on a broad range of topics including politics, history, and literary criticism. Furthermore, she has written and tr...
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Cynthia Ozick (born April 17, 1928, New York City), is an American short story writer, novelist, and essayist.
She earned her B.A. from New York University and went on to study English Literature at Ohio State University, where she completed an M.A.
Ozick's fiction and essays are often about Jewish American life, but she also writes on a broad range of topics including politics, history, and literary criticism. Furthermore, she has written and translated poetry.
Her most recent novel, Heir to the Glimmering World (2004), called The Bear Boy in the United Kingdom, received much praise in the literary press.
Most recently, Ozick published The Din in the Head, her sixth collection of literary essays.
In 1986, she was selected as the first winner of the Rea Award for the Short Story. Ozick was on the shortlist for the 2005 Man Booker International Prize, and in 2008 she was awarded the PEN/Malamud Award established by Bernard Malamud’s family "to honor excellence in the art of the short...
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