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Cynthia Ozick was born in New York City, the daughter of Russian Jewish immigrants. Her family maintained a level of relative prosperity by running a family drugstore. Ozick was enrolled in a Yiddish-Hebrew school when she was five, where she flourished, and changing to public school was difficult for her until she was accepted to Hunter College High School. She received a B.A. from New York University and an M.A. from Ohio State University. She is married with one daughter. Her work as a Jewish American writer of short fiction has won her considerable acclaim, including being the five-time winner of the Best American Short Stories awards, the National Book Award, the American Academy of Arts and Letters Award, the PEN/Faulkner Award, the O. Henry Award, and the Jewish Book Council Award. Her major works of short fiction include The Pagan Rabbi and Other Stories (1971), Bloodshed and Three Novellas (1976), Levitation: Five Fictions (1982), The Cannibal Galaxy (1983), The Messiah of Stockholm (1987), The Shawl (1989), and the Puttermesser Papers (1997). Among her collections of essays are Art and Ardor (1983), Metaphor and Memory (1989), What Henry James Knew and Other Essays on Writers (1993), and Fame and Folly: Essays (1996). Author Links
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