Cynthia Ozick

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born

April 17, 1928 in New York City, The United States

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female

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Literature & Fiction, Short Stories

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Recipient of the first Rea Award for the Short Story (in 1976; other winners Rea honorees include Lorrie Moore, John Updike, Alice Munro), an American Academy of Arts and Letters Mildred and Harold Strauss Living Award, and the PEN/Malamud award in 2008.

Upon publication of her 1983 The Shawl, Edmund White wrote in the New York Times, "Miss Ozick strikes me as the best American writer to have emerged in recent years...Judaism has given to her what Catholicism gave to Flannery O'Connor."

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Average rating: 3.62 · 7,378 ratings · 798 reviews · 43 distinct works

	The Shawl 3.84 avg rating — 891 ratings — published 1989 — 13 editions	My rating:
	Heir to the Glimmering World 3.09 avg rating — 621 ratings — published 2004 — 16 editions	My rating:
	Foreign Bodies 3.17 avg rating — 421 ratings — published 2010 — 8 editions	My rating:
	The Puttermesser Papers 3.49 avg rating — 448 ratings — published 1997 — 5 editions	My rating:
	The Messiah of Stockholm 3.57 avg rating — 150 ratings — published 1987 — 4 editions	My rating:
	Dictation: A Quartet 3.19 avg rating — 162 ratings — published 2008 — 5 editions	My rating:
	Quarrel & Quandary: Essays 3.86 avg rating — 69 ratings — published 2000 — 3 editions	My rating:
	Pagan Rabbi, and Other Stories 3.68 avg rating — 60 ratings — published 1983 — 7 editions	My rating:
	Metaphor & Memory 3.87 avg rating — 54 ratings — published 1989 — 3 editions	My rating:
	Cannibal Galaxy 3.58 avg rating — 45 ratings — published 1983 — 6 editions	My rating:

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“We often take for granted the very things that most deserve our gratitude.”
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“What we remember from childhood we remember forever - permanent ghosts, stamped, inked, imprinted, eternally seen.”
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“If I had to say what writing is, we would define it essentially as an act of courage.”
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