Cynthia Ozick
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Cynthia Ozick (b. April 17, 1928, New York City, to William Ozick and Celia Regelson) is an American writer whose works are often about Jewish American life, but as well frequently writes criticism about American literature, and its greatest figures, such as Henry James. Ozick earned a B.A. from New York University in 1949 and a M.A. from Ohio State University in 1950. She has been awarded a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship (1968), an American Academy of Arts and Letters Award for Literature (1973), and a Guggenheim Fellowship (1982).
Her most recent novel, Heir to the Glimmering World (2004), called The Bear Boy in the United Kingdom, has received much praise in the literary press.
Most recently, Ozick published The Din in the Head, a collection of her literary criticism essays.
Ozick was on the shortlist for the 2005 Man Booker International Prize.
Partial list of works
- Trust (1966)
- The Pagan Rabbi and Other Stories (1971)
- Bloodshed and Three Novellas (1976)
- Levitation: Five Fictions (1982)
- Art and Ardor (1983)
- The Cannibal Galaxy (1983)
- The Messiah of Stockholm (1987)
- Metaphor & Memory (1989)
- The Shawl (1989)
- Blue Light (1994)
- A Cynthia Ozick Reader (1996)
- Fame & Folly: Essays (1996)
- The Shawl (1996)
- The Puttermesser Papers (1997)
- Heir to the Glimmering World (2004) -- (published in the United Kingdom as The Bear Boy (2005)
- The Din in the Head: Essays (2006)
External links
- Detailed biography in the [Jewish Virtual Library]
- Interview at [City Arts]
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