Cynthia Ozick
Author of The Shawl: A Story and Novella
About the Author
Writer Cynthia Ozick was born on April 17, 1928. She grew up in the Bronx and attended New York University, where she earned a B. A., and The Ohio State University, where she completed her master's degree in English literature with a specific focus on Henry James's works. Ozick wrote the novel show more Trust, and the short stories "The Sense of Europe", which was published in Prairie Schooner, and "The Shawl", which was included in The World of the Short Story. Her work has also appeared in The New Yorker, Harper's, Partisan Review, and Esquire. Ozick has received a Guggenheim Fellowship and a Harold Straus Living Award from the American Academy and National Institute of Arts and Letters. Three of her stories won first prize in the O. Henry competition. 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. Her novel Heir to the Glimmering World (2004) won high literary praise. Ozick was on the shortlist for the 2005 Man Booker International Prize, and in 2008 she was awarded the PEN/Nabokov Award and the PEN/Malamud Award, which was established by Bernard Malamud¿s family to honor excellence in the art of the short story. Her novel Foreign Bodies was shortlisted for the Orange Prize (2012). (Bowker Author Biography) show less
Works by Cynthia Ozick
The Pagan Rabbi {novelette} 7 copies
Seize the Day 4 copies
Ozick, Cynthia Archive 1 copy
The Cossacks 1 copy
The Bear Boy 1 copy
What Henry James Knew 1 copy
Literary Entrails 1 copy
Associated Works
The Scribner Anthology of Contemporary Short Fiction: Fifty North American American Stories Since 1970 (1999) — Contributor — 513 copies
For the Love of Books: 115 Celebrated Writers on the Books They Love Most (1999) — Contributor — 452 copies
More Wandering Stars: Outstanding Stories of Jewish Fantasy and Science Fiction (1981) — Contributor — 93 copies
The Glorious American Essay: One Hundred Essays from Colonial Times to the Present (2020) — Contributor — 83 copies
Who's Writing This? Notations on the Authorial I, with Self-Portraits {not Antæus} (1995) — Contributor — 72 copies
Antaeus No. 73/74, Spring 1994 - Who’s Writing This: Notations on the Authorial I {magazine} (1994) — Contributor — 5 copies
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Common Knowledge
- Canonical name
- Ozick, Cynthia
- Legal name
- Ozick, Cynthia Shoshana
- Other names
- Озик, Синтия
- Birthdate
- 1928-04-17
- Gender
- female
- Nationality
- USA
- Birthplace
- New York, New York, USA
- Places of residence
- New York, New York, USA
New Rochelle, New York, USA - Education
- New York University (BA | 1949)
Ohio State University (MA | 1950) - Occupations
- short-story writer
novelist
essayist - Relationships
- Trilling, Lionel (teacher)
Hallote, Rachel (daughter)
Regelson, Abraham (uncle)
Hallotte, Bernard (spouse) - Awards and honors
- National Humanities Medal (2007)
Lannan Literary Award (Fiction ∙ 2000)
American Academy of Arts and Letters (Literature, 1988)
American Academy of Arts and Letters Academy Award (Literature ∙ 1973)
PEN/Nabokov Award (2008)
Edward Lewis Wallant Award (1971) (show all 12)
National Jewish Book Award (1971, 1977)
Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay (1997)
Rea Award for the Short Story (1986)
National Book Critics Circle Award (2000)
PEN/Malamud Award (2008)
Man Booker International Prize Finalist (2005)
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Reviews
Dictation: A Quartet by Cynthia Ozick
I enjoyed this, but after some years since reading it, I don't recall enough to discuss it.
I think incessantly of death, of oblivion, how nothing lasts, not even memory when the one who remembers is gone…If there were ever any doubt that Ozick is a master storyteller, here’s your proof.
I remember nothing. I remember everything. I believe everything. I believe nothing.
Do yourself a favor and skip the blurb; don’t read the synopsis. Let Petrie’s fictional monologue take you over; let yourself get to know him, his regrets, his idiosyncrasies, his losses, his attempts at connection with others.
Imagine an interior monologue—shaped just as America shakes off the first half of the twentieth century—that is an examination of the shackles of memory, a questioning of who "owns" whose history and legacy, and a laying bare of the guilt involved in carrying your own and others' stories into the next generation.
Imagine this told with the baroque stylings of James within a Proustian project of aging, of facing both one’s mortality and the death of an age, wherein Dreyfus makes an appearance and for which fans of Bolano’s slim monologues and Marias’s own Jamesian verbosities will salivate at the mouth.
Do yourself another favor and read this all in one gulp.… (more)
I didn’t really understand it, but I liked it anyway, it was very enjoyable to read, the writing was almost like poetry. My first Ozick novel, I’ll have to try another.
I'm not sure why, but this story failed to connect with me. I guess it felt like there wasn't anything there that hadn't been seen before. The level of involvement with the characters was too shallow for me to feel anything but a general angst (which I always feel when this subject is broached). It was sad, but in the way that knowing this happened to people is sad, not in the specific way that I wanted to find. There was no one character I could relate to in a closer way. Perhaps for me a short story is just too short to convey this level of horror.
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