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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 651 copies, 17 reviews
Heir to the Glimmering World 630 copies, 14 reviews
The Puttermesser papers 580 copies, 14 reviews
Foreign bodies 371 copies, 22 reviews
The Messiah of Stockholm 272 copies, 3 reviews
The Pagan Rabbi and Other Stories 178 copies, 1 review
Quarrel & quandary : essays 177 copies, 1 review
Dictation: A Quartet 163 copies, 10 reviews
The Best American Essays 1998 (Editor; Introduction; Editor) 159 copies, 1 review
Metaphor & memory : essays 130 copies
The Cannibal Galaxy 121 copies, 1 review
Fame & folly : essays 112 copies
Trust 98 copies, 2 reviews
Levitation 95 copies, 3 reviews

The Din in the Head 93 copies, 2 reviews

Art and Ardor 93 copies

Bloodshed and Three Novellas 79 copies

What Henry James Knew: And Other Essays on Writers 37 copies

Critics, Monsters, Fanatics, and Other Literary Essays 34 copies, 3 reviews

Collected Stories 31 copies

A Cynthia Ozick Reader 31 copies, 1 review

The Shawl {story} (Author) 12 copies

Portrait of the Artist as a Bad Character and Other Essays on Writing… 7 copies

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

The Pagan Rabbi {short story} 6 copies

Cuentos reunidos 4 copies

Magic Bluebell - Polly Pocket (Golden Storyland) 3 copies

Le carte della Signorina Puttermesser 2 copies

Letters of intent: selected essays 2 copies

Rosa {novella} (Author) 2 copies

Vagalumes e parasitas 2 copies

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Washington Square (Introduction, some editions) 3,297 copies, 61 reviews
The Best American Short Stories of the Century (Contributor) 1,204 copies, 7 reviews
Collected Stories (Introduction, some editions) 865 copies, 12 reviews
The Sunflower (Contributor, some editions) 817 copies, 18 reviews
The Oxford Book of American Short Stories (Contributor) 628 copies, 1 review
The Awkward Age (Introduction, some editions) 558 copies, 2 reviews
The Best American Essays of the Century (Contributor) 554 copies, 4 reviews
The Best American Essays 2007 (Contributor) 416 copies, 10 reviews
The Scribner Anthology of Contemporary Short Fiction: Fifty North American… (Contributor) 382 copies, 3 reviews
For the Love of Books: 115 Celebrated Writers on the Books They Love Most (Contributor) 380 copies, 3 reviews
The Complete Works of Isaac Babel (Introduction, some editions) 377 copies, 3 reviews
Black Water: The Book of Fantastic Literature (Contributor) 373 copies, 6 reviews
The Norton Book of Women's Lives (Contributor) 322 copies
The Best American Short Stories 1997 (Contributor) 281 copies, 1 review

The Best American Essays 2009 (Contributor) 187 copies, 2 reviews

The Best American Essays 2000 (Contributor) 172 copies, 2 reviews

The Best American Essays 1999 (Contributor) 160 copies, 1 review

The Best American Essays 1994 (Contributor) 152 copies

Modern American Memoirs (Contributor) 152 copies, 2 reviews

The Best American Essays 1997 (Contributor) 125 copies

The Best American Essays 1995 (Contributor) 119 copies

The Norton Book of Personal Essays (Contributor) 117 copies, 1 review

The Best American Essays 1993 (Contributor) 98 copies

The Oxford Book of Jewish Stories (Contributor) 94 copies, 2 reviews

Isaac Bashevis Singer: An Album (Contributor) 88 copies

America and I: Short Stories by American Jewish Women Writers (Contributor) 83 copies

The Granta Book of the American Long Story (Contributor) 82 copies

More Wandering Stars: Outstanding Stories of Jewish Fantasy and Science… (Contributor) 67 copies

The Best American Essays 1986 (Contributor) 54 copies, 1 review

Who’s Writing This? Notations on the Authorial I, with Self-Portraits… (Contributor) 50 copies

Bearing Witness: Stories of the Holocaust (Contributor) 47 copies

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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

Education

New York University (BA)

Ohio State University (MA ∙ English Literature)

Occupations

short-story writer

Relationships

Trilling, Lionel (teacher)

Organizations

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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