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CYNTHIA OZICK Cynthia Ozick (b. 1928) was born in New York City, the daughter of a pharmacist. She received a B.A. from New York University in 1949 and an M.A. from Ohio State University in 1950 with a thesis titled "Parable in Henry James." She didn't publish her first work, the novel Trust, until 1966. Three collections of short fiction followed: The Pagan Rabbi and Other Stories (1971), Bloodshed and Three Novellas (1976), and Levitation (1981). In 1989 she published Metaphor and Memory: Essays and The Shawl, a novella developing her short story. Other works include Art & Ardor: Essays (1983), The Cannibal Galaxy (1983), The Messiah of Stockholm (1987), Epodes: First Poems (1992), Portrait of the Artist as a Bad Character and Other Essays on Writing (1994) Fame & Folly (1996) and The Puttermesser Papers ( 1997). Ozick has received numerous literary awards, among them a Guggenheim Fellowship and a Mildred and Harold Straus Living Award from the American Academy and National Institute of Arts and Letters. |