Cynthia Ozick was born in New York City, the second of two children. She moved to the Bronx with her Belarusian-Jewish parents from Hlusk, Belarus: Celia (née Regelson) and William Ozick, proprietors of the Park View Pharmacy in the Pelham Bay neighborhood.[2]
She appears briefly in the film Town Bloody Hall, where she asks Norman Mailer with her signature wit and incisiveness, "in Advertisements for Myself you said, quote, 'A good novelist can do without everything but the remnant of his balls'. For years and years I’ve been wondering, Mr. Mailer, when you dip your balls in ink, what color ink is it?".[5]
Ozick was married to Bernard Hallote, a lawyer, until his death in 2017. Their daughter, Rachel Hallote, is a professor of history at SUNY Purchase and head of its Jewish studies program. Ozick is the niece of the Hebraist Abraham Regelson.[4]
Yale University has acquired her literary papers.[6] A forthcoming special issue of Studies in Jewish American Literature will examine her contributions to the art of non-fiction.[7]
Literary themes
Ozick's fiction and essays are often about Jewish American life, but she also writes about politics, history, and literary criticism. In addition, she has written and translated poetry.
Henry James occupies a central place in her fiction and nonfiction. The critic Adam Kirsch wrote that her "career-long agon with Henry James... reaches a kind of culmination in Foreign Bodies, her polemical rewriting of The Ambassadors."[8]
The Holocaust and its aftermath is also a dominant theme. For instance in "Who Owns Anne Frank?"[9] she writes that the diary's true meaning has been distorted and eviscerated "by blurb and stage, by shrewdness and naiveté, by cowardice and spirituality, by forgiveness and indifference."[10] Much of her work explores the disparaged self, the reconstruction of identity after immigration, trauma and movement from one class to another.[2]
Ozick says that writing is not a choice but "a kind of hallucinatory madness. You will do it no matter what. You can't not do it." She sees the "freedom in the delectable sense of making things up" as coexisting with the "torment" of writing.[11]
The novelist David Foster Wallace called Ozick one of the greatest living American writers.[16] She has been described as "the Athena of America's literary pantheon", the "Emily Dickinson of the Bronx", and "one of the most accomplished and graceful literary stylists of her time".[4]
Bibliography
This list is incomplete; you can help by adding missing items. (February 2023)
Novels
Trust (1966)
The Cannibal Galaxy (1983)
The Messiah of Stockholm (1987)
The Puttermesser Papers (1997)
Heir to the Glimmering World (2004) (published in the United Kingdom in 2005 as The Bear Boy)
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Cynthia Ozick born April 17 1928 is an American short story writer novelist and essayist 1 Cynthia OzickBorn 1928 04 17 April 17 1928 age 94 New York City New York U S OccupationWriterNationalityAmericanPeriod1966 presentNotable awardsAmerican Academy of Arts and Letters 1988Signature Contents 1 Biography 2 Literary themes 3 Awards and critical acclaim 4 Bibliography 4 1 Novels 4 2 Short fiction 4 3 Drama 4 4 Non fiction 4 5 Critical studies and reviews of Ozick s work 5 See also 6 References 7 Further reading 8 External linksBiography EditCynthia Ozick was born in New York City the second of two children She moved to the Bronx with her Belarusian Jewish parents from Hlusk Belarus Celia nee Regelson and William Ozick proprietors of the Park View Pharmacy in the Pelham Bay neighborhood 2 She attended Hunter College High School in Manhattan 3 She earned her B A from New York University and went on to study at Ohio State University where she completed an M A 2 in English literature focusing on the novels of Henry James 4 She appears briefly in the film Town Bloody Hall where she asks Norman Mailer with her signature wit and incisiveness in Advertisements for Myself you said quote A good novelist can do without everything but the remnant of his balls For years and years I ve been wondering Mr Mailer when you dip your balls in ink what color ink is it 5 Ozick was married to Bernard Hallote a lawyer until his death in 2017 Their daughter Rachel Hallote is a professor of history at SUNY Purchase and head of its Jewish studies program Ozick is the niece of the Hebraist Abraham Regelson 4 Yale University has acquired her literary papers 6 A forthcoming special issue of Studies in Jewish American Literature will examine her contributions to the art of non fiction 7 Literary themes EditOzick s fiction and essays are often about Jewish American life but she also writes about politics history and literary criticism In addition she has written and translated poetry Henry James occupies a central place in her fiction and nonfiction The critic Adam Kirsch wrote that her career long agon with Henry James reaches a kind of culmination in Foreign Bodies her polemical rewriting of The Ambassadors 8 The Holocaust and its aftermath is also a dominant theme For instance in Who Owns Anne Frank 9 she writes that the diary s true meaning has been distorted and eviscerated by blurb and stage by shrewdness and naivete by cowardice and spirituality by forgiveness and indifference 10 Much of her work explores the disparaged self the reconstruction of identity after immigration trauma and movement from one class to another 2 Ozick says that writing is not a choice but a kind of hallucinatory madness You will do it no matter what You can t not do it She sees the freedom in the delectable sense of making things up as coexisting with the torment of writing 11 Awards and critical acclaim EditIn 1971 Ozick received the Edward Lewis Wallant Award and the National Jewish Book Award 12 for her short story collection The Pagan Rabbi and Other Stories 13 For Bloodshed and Three Novellas she received in 1977 The National Jewish Book Award for Fiction 12 In 1997 she received the Diamonstein Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay for Fame and Folly Four of her stories won first prize in the O Henry competition 3 In 1986 she was selected as the first winner of the Rea Award for the Short Story In 2000 she won the National Book Critics Circle Award for Quarrel amp Quandary 14 Her novel Heir to the Glimmering World 2004 published as The Bear Boy in the United Kingdom won high literary praise Ozick was on the shortlist for the 2005 Man Booker International Prize and in 2008 she was awarded the PEN Nabokov Award and the PEN Malamud Award which was established by Bernard Malamud s family to honor excellence in the art of the short story Her novel Foreign Bodies was shortlisted for the Orange Prize 2012 and the Jewish Quarterly Wingate Prize 2013 15 The novelist David Foster Wallace called Ozick one of the greatest living American writers 16 She has been described as the Athena of America s literary pantheon the Emily Dickinson of the Bronx and one of the most accomplished and graceful literary stylists of her time 4 Bibliography EditThis list is incomplete you can help by adding missing items February 2023 Novels Edit Trust 1966 The Cannibal Galaxy 1983 The Messiah of Stockholm 1987 The Puttermesser Papers 1997 Heir to the Glimmering World 2004 published in the United Kingdom in 2005 as The Bear Boy Foreign Bodies 2010 Antiquities 2021 Short fiction Edit CollectionsThe Pagan Rabbi and Other Stories 1971 Bloodshed and Three Novellas 1976 Levitation Five Fictions 1982 Envy or Yiddish in America 1969 The Shawl 1989 Collected Stories 2007 Dictation A Quartet 2008 Stories a Title Year First published Reprinted collected NotesThe coast of New Zealand 2021 Ozick Cynthia June 21 2021 The coast of New Zealand The New Yorker 97 17 50 57 Drama Edit Blue Light 1994 Non fiction Edit Essay collectionsAll the World Wants the Jews Dead 1974 Art and Ardor 1983 Metaphor amp Memory 1989 What Henry James Knew and Other Essays on Writers 1993 Fame amp Folly Essays 1996 SHE Portrait of the Essay as a warm body 1998 Quarrel amp Quandary 2000 The Din in the Head Essays 2006 Critics Monsters Fanatics and Other Literary Essays 2016 David Miller ed Letters of Intent Selected Essays 2017 MiscellaneousA Cynthia Ozick Reader 1996 The Complete Works of Isaac Babel introduction 2001 Fistfuls of Masterpieces b Critical studies and reviews of Ozick s work Edit 2000 The New York Times The Girl Who Would Be James by John Sutherland on Ozick s book Quarrel amp Quandary 2002 Partisan Review Cynthia Ozick Aesthete by Sanford Pinsker 2005 The Guardian The World is Not Enough by Ali Smith on Ozick s book The Bear Boy 2006 The New York Times Book Review The Canon as Cannon by Walter Kirn on Ozick s book The Din in the Head 2010 The New York Times Book Review Cynthia Ozick s Homage to Henry James by Thomas Mallon on Ozick s book Foreign Bodies 2010 The New York Times Book Review A Jamesian Pays Tribute in a Retelling by Charles McGrath on Ozick s book Foreign Bodies Notes Short stories unless otherwise noted The New York Times Book Review Search Article www nytimes com Retrieved 12 January 2018 See also EditJewish American literatureReferences Edit Articles about Cynthia Ozick The New York Times a b c Brockes Emma 2 July 2011 A life in writing Cynthia Ozick The Guardian a b Cynthia Ozick Jewish Women s Archive jwa org Retrieved January 12 2018 a b c Profile Cynthia Ozick Archived from the original on Apr 23 2012 Retrieved September 2 2022 On Norman Mailer in the 1960s TLS Retrieved 2022 04 27 Cynthia Ozick papers archives yale edu cfp call for papers call for papers sas upenn edu Retrieved 2022 04 27 Kirsch Adam 2015 Rocket and Lightship Essays on Literature and Ideas Norton p 216 ISBN 978 0393243468 Who Owns Anne Frank The New Yorker Sep 29 1997 Retrieved Sep 2 2022 Who Owns Anne Frank The New Yorker 1997 09 29 Retrieved 2022 04 27 Profile Cynthia Ozick Hadassah Magazine 28 February 2012 Retrieved 12 January 2018 a b Past Winners Jewish Book Council Archived from the original on 2020 03 08 Retrieved 2020 01 19 The Edward Lewis Wallant Award Section Past Recipients The Maurice Greenberg Center for Judaic Studies University of Hartford Archived from the original on 2014 03 08 Retrieved 2017 09 23 Brockes Emma 4 July 2011 A life in writing Cynthia Ozick Retrieved 12 January 2018 via www theguardian com Jewish Quarterly Wingate Prize 2013 Archived from the original on Nov 5 2012 Retrieved Sep 2 2022 Brief Interview with a Five Draft Man Extra Amherst College www amherst edu Retrieved Sep 2 2022 Further reading EditTom Teicholz Spring 1987 Cynthia Ozick The Art of Fiction No 95 The Paris Review Spring 1987 102 The Lesson of the Master Ozick s essay on the story by Henry James at Narrative Magazine External links Edit Wikimedia Commons has media related to Cynthia Ozick Cynthia Ozick collected news and commentary at The New York Times Appearances on C SPAN The Uncut Interview with Cynthia Ozick at City Arts Cynthia Ozick Interview at The Morning News Cynthia Ozick at Library of Congress with 48 library catalog records Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Cynthia Ozick amp oldid 1139916969, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,
