Cynthia Ozick

Cynthia Ozick
Cynthia Ozick
Born April 17, 1928 (1928-04-17) (age 83)
New York City, New York, United States
Occupation Writer
Nationality American
Ethnicity Jewish
Period 1966 - Present

Cynthia Ozick (born April 17, 1928) is an American short story writer, novelist, and essayist.[1][2] She is the niece of the Hebraist Abraham Regelson.

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Background

Cynthia Shoshana Ozick was born in New York City, the second of two children. She moved to the Bronx with her Russian-born parents, Celia (Regelson) and William Ozick, proprietors of the Park View Pharmacy in the Pelham Bay neighborhood.[2] As a girl, Ozick helped to deliver prescriptions. In Ozick's biography Growing up in the Bronx, she remembers stones thrown at her and being called a Christ-killer as she ran past the two churches in her neighborhood. In school she was publicly shamed for refusing to sing Christmas carols. 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.[2]

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. In addition, she has written and translated poetry.

Her novel Heir to the Glimmering World (2004), called The Bear Boy in the United Kingdom, received much praise in the literary press. The Din in the Head is her sixth collection of literary essays. In 1986, she was selected as the first winner of the Rea Award for the Short Story. In 2000, she won the National Book Critics Circle Award for Quarrel & Quandary. 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 story. Critically acclaimed novelist and essayist David Foster Wallace called Ozick one of the greatest living American writers.[3]

Published works

Novels

  • Trust (1966)
  • The Cannibal Galaxy (1983)
  • The Messiah of Stockholm (1987)
  • The Puttermesser Papers (1997)
  • Heir to the Glimmering World (2004) -- (published in the United Kingdom as The Bear Boy (2005)
  • Foreign Bodies (2010)

Shorter Fiction

  • The Pagan Rabbi and Other Stories (1971)
  • Bloodshed and Three Novellas (1976)
  • Levitation: Five Fictions (1982)
  • Envy; or, Yiddish in America (1989)
  • The Shawl (1989)
  • Collected Stories (2007)
  • Dictation: A Quartet (2008)

Essay collections

  • All the World Wants the Jews Dead (1974)
  • Art and Ardor (1983)
  • Metaphor & Memory (1989)
  • What Henry James Knew and Other Essays on Writers (1993)
  • Fame & Folly: Essays (1996)
  • Quarrel & Quandary (2000)
  • The Din in the Head: Essays (2006)

Drama

  • Blue Light (1994)

Miscellaneous

  • A Cynthia Ozick Reader (1996)
  • The Complete Works of Isaac Babel (introduction 2001)

References

  1. ^ Articles about Cynthia Ozick, New York Times
  2. ^ a b c Emma Brockes. "A life in writing: Cynthia Ozick", The Guardian, 2 July 2011
  3. ^ Brief Interview with a Five Draft Man, Amherst Magazine

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