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Cynthia Ozick

Author of The Shawl: A Story and Novella

Includes the names: Cynthia Ozick, Cynthia Ozick, Cynthia Ozick, Cynthia Ozick editor, Cynthia; et al. Ozick, Cynthia Ozick; et al., シンシアオージック

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Works by Cynthia Ozick

The Shawl: A Story and Novella 674 copies, 18 reviews
Heir to the Glimmering World 645 copies, 15 reviews
The Puttermesser papers 603 copies, 19 reviews
Foreign bodies 379 copies, 22 reviews
The Messiah of Stockholm 277 copies, 3 reviews
The Pagan Rabbi and Other Stories 181 copies, 1 review
Quarrel & quandary : essays 177 copies, 1 review
Dictation: A Quartet 165 copies, 10 reviews
The Best American Essays 1998 (Editor; Introduction; Editor) 162 copies, 1 review
Metaphor & memory : essays 131 copies
The Cannibal Galaxy 122 copies, 1 review
Fame & folly : essays 113 copies
Trust 99 copies, 2 reviews
Levitation 98 copies, 3 reviews

The Din in the Head 95 copies, 2 reviews

Art and Ardor 94 copies

Bloodshed and Three Novellas 81 copies

Critics, Monsters, Fanatics, and Other Literary Essays 38 copies, 3 reviews

What Henry James Knew: And Other Essays on Writers 38 copies

A Cynthia Ozick Reader 33 copies, 1 review

Collected Stories 31 copies

The Shawl {story} (Author) 12 copies

Portrait of the Artist as a Bad Character and Other Essays on Writing… 8 copies

The Pagan Rabbi {short story} 6 copies

Envy, or Yiddish in America and The Pagan Rabbi 6 copies

Cuentos reunidos 4 copies

Magic Bluebell - Polly Pocket (Golden Storyland) 3 copies

Letters of intent: selected essays 2 copies

Seize the Day 2 copies

Le carte della Signorina Puttermesser 2 copies

Rosa {novella} (Author) 2 copies

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Washington Square (Introduction, some editions) 3,412 copies, 65 reviews
The Best American Short Stories of the Century (Contributor) 1,245 copies, 7 reviews
Collected Stories (Introduction, some editions) 878 copies, 21 reviews
The Sunflower (Contributor) 864 copies, 19 reviews
The Oxford Book of American Short Stories (Contributor) 654 copies, 1 review
The Awkward Age (Introduction, some editions) 585 copies, 2 reviews
The Best American Essays of the Century (Contributor) 571 copies, 4 reviews
The Best American Essays 2007 (Contributor) 420 copies, 10 reviews
The Scribner Anthology of Contemporary Short Fiction: Fifty North American… (Contributor) 393 copies, 3 reviews
For the Love of Books: 115 Celebrated Writers on the Books They Love Most (Contributor) 388 copies, 3 reviews
The Complete Works of Isaac Babel (Introduction, some editions) 387 copies, 3 reviews
Black Water: The Book of Fantastic Literature (Contributor) 381 copies, 7 reviews
The Norton Book of Women's Lives (Contributor) 337 copies
The Best American Short Stories 1997 (Contributor) 284 copies, 1 review

The Best American Essays 2009 (Contributor) 192 copies, 2 reviews

The Best American Essays 2000 (Contributor) 173 copies, 2 reviews

The Best American Essays 1999 (Contributor) 162 copies, 1 review

Modern American Memoirs (Contributor) 157 copies, 2 reviews

The Best American Essays 1994 (Contributor) 152 copies

The Best American Short Stories of the 80s (Contributor) 135 copies

The Best American Essays 1997 (Contributor) 126 copies

The Best American Essays 1995 (Contributor) 125 copies

The Norton Book of Personal Essays (Contributor) 118 copies, 1 review

The Best American Essays 1993 (Contributor) 98 copies

The Oxford Book of Jewish Stories (Contributor) 96 copies, 2 reviews

Isaac Bashevis Singer: An Album (Contributor) 92 copies

America and I: Short Stories by American Jewish Women Writers (Contributor) 87 copies

The Best American Short Stories 1984 (Contributor) 84 copies

The Granta Book of the American Long Story (Contributor) 81 copies

More Wandering Stars: Outstanding Stories of Jewish Fantasy and Science… (Contributor) 69 copies

The Best American Essays 1986 (Contributor) 57 copies, 1 review

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Ozick, Cynthia Shoshana

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Озик, Синтия

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New York, New York, USA

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New York, New York, USA

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New York University (BA)

Ohio State University (MA ∙ English Literature)

Occupations

short-story writer

Relationships

Trilling, Lionel (teacher)

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American Academy of Arts and Letters (Literature ∙ 1988)

Awards and honors

National Humanities Medal (2007)

Lannan Literary Award ( [2000])

PEN/Malamud Award (2008)

American Academy of Arts and Letters Academy Award ( [1973])

PEN/Nabokov Award (2008)

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