Cynthia Ozick

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Ozick in Her Youth

Cynthia Ozick (born April 17, 1928, New York City), is an American writer, the daughter of William Ozick and Celia Regelson.

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 criticism about American Letters by Georgetown University (2007). 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, has received much praise in the literary press.

Most recently, Ozick published The Din in the Head, a collection of critical essays on literature.

Ozick was on the shortlist for the 2005 Man Booker International Prize. In 1986, she was selected as the first winner of the Rea Award for the Short Story.

Partial list of works

• Trust (1966)
• The Pagan Rabbi and Other Stories (1971)
• Bloodshed and Three Novellas (1976)
• The Shawl (1980)
• Levitation: Five Fictions (1982)
• Art and Ardor (1983)
• The Cannibal Galaxy (1983)
• The Messiah of Stockholm (1987)
• Envy; or, Yiddish in America (1989)
• Metaphor & Memory (1989)
• The Shawl (1989)
• Blue Light (1994)
• What Henry James Knew (1994)
• A Cynthia Ozick Reader (1996)
• Fame & Folly: Essays (1996)
• The Puttermesser Papers (1997)
• The Complete Works of Isaac Babel (introduction 2001)
• Heir to the Glimmering World (2004) -- (published in the United Kingdom as The Bear Boy (2005)
• The Din in the Head: Essays (2006)

Reviews

• 2000 NY Times: The Girl Who Would Be James by John Sutherland [1] (on Ozick's book Quarrel & Quandary)

• 2002 Partisan Review: Cynthia Ozick, Aesthete by Sanford Pinsker [2]

• 2005 The Guardian: The World is Not Enough by Ali Smith [3] (on Ozick's book The Bear Boy)

• 2006 Moondance magazine: Answering the Writer's Tumult -- On Cynthia Ozick's 'The Din in the Head' by Lys Anzia [4]

External links

• Detailed biography at the Jewish Virtual Library
• Interview at City Arts
• Interview at The Morning News