Cynthia
Ozick
(1928 - )
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.
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