Cynthia Ozick





Cynthia Ozick

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

gender
female

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About this author

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."



Average rating: 3.72 · 12,258 ratings · 1,205 reviews · 45 distinct works · Similar authors
The Shawl
3.88 of 5 stars 3.88 avg rating — 1,212 ratings — published 1989 — 13 editions
Heir to the Glimmering World
3.1 of 5 stars 3.10 avg rating — 788 ratings — published 2004 — 18 editions
Foreign Bodies
3.09 of 5 stars 3.09 avg rating — 801 ratings — published 2010 — 13 editions
The Puttermesser Papers
3.54 of 5 stars 3.54 avg rating — 570 ratings — published 1997 — 5 editions
The Messiah of Stockholm
3.56 of 5 stars 3.56 avg rating — 196 ratings — published 1987 — 5 editions
Dictation: A Quartet
3.26 of 5 stars 3.26 avg rating — 189 ratings — published 2008 — 5 editions
Quarrel & Quandary: Essays
3.9 of 5 stars 3.90 avg rating — 78 ratings — published 2000 — 3 editions
Pagan Rabbi, and Other Stories
3.75 of 5 stars 3.75 avg rating — 76 ratings — published 1971 — 8 editions
Metaphor & Memory
3.92 of 5 stars 3.92 avg rating — 61 ratings — published 1989 — 3 editions
The Cannibal Galaxy
3.5 of 5 stars 3.50 avg rating — 58 ratings — published 1983 — 7 editions
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