Cynthia Ozick
Born 17 April 1928
From New York City, New York, United States · Nationality: United States · Writes fiction
Cynthia Ozick was born in New York City to Russian-Jewish parents. She received a B.A. from New York University and a M.A. from Ohio State University. She is a 1982 Guggenheim Fellow and received a Mildred and Harold Strauss Living award from the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters.
She writes about politics, history, and literary criticism. The Holocaust is a recurring theme, and she often writes about life as a Jewish American.
Books by Cynthia Ozick in order
Books by Cynthia Ozick in the order they were published, from Trust (1966) to Antiquities (2021).
- 1Trust
Trust1966 - 2The Pagan Rabbi
The Pagan Rabbi1971 - 3Bloodshed and Three Novellas
Bloodshed and Three Novellas1973 - 4All the World Wants the Jews DeadAll the World Wants the Jews Dead1974
- 5Levitation, Five Fictions
Levitation, Five Fictions1981 - 6Levitation
Levitation1982 - 7Art & Ardor
Art & Ardor1983 - 8The Cannibal Galaxy
The Cannibal Galaxy1983 - 9The Messiah of Stockholm
The Messiah of Stockholm1987 - 10The Shawl
The Shawl1989 - 11What Henry James Knew and Other Essays on Writers
What Henry James Knew and Other Essays on Writers1993 - 12A Cynthia Ozick Reader
A Cynthia Ozick Reader1996 - 13Fame & Folly
Fame & Folly1996 - 14The Puttermesser Papers
The Puttermesser Papers1997 - 15The Best American Essays 1998
The Best American Essays 19981998 - 16Envy, or Yiddish in America and The Pagan Rabbi
Envy, or Yiddish in America and The Pagan Rabbi2000 - 17Quarrel & Quandary
Quarrel & Quandary2000What's in it (20)
- Forethoughts
- Dostoyevsky's Unabomber
- The Posthumous Sublime
- The Impossibility of Being Kafka
- The Impious Impatience of Job
- Who Owns Anne Frank?
- The Rights of History and the Rights of Imagination
- Public Intellectuals
- The Selfishness of Art
- Cinematic James
- A Prophet of Modernism
- Imaginary People
- The Ladle
- What Is Poetry About?
- A Swedish Novel
- She : Portrait of the Essay as a Warm Body
- A Drug Store Eden
- Lovesickness
- How I Got Fired from My Summer Job
- The Synthetic Sublime
- 18Heir to the Glimmering World
Heir to the Glimmering World2004 - 19The Din in the Head
The Din in the Head2006 - 20Foreign Bodies
Foreign Bodies2010 - 21Critics, Monsters, Fanatics, and Other Literary EssaysCritics, Monsters, Fanatics, and Other Literary Essays2016
- 22El chal
El chal2016 - 23Antiquities
Antiquities2021