Cynthia Ozick: Quick Facts


Facts

Born April 17, 1928 (age 98) • New York City • New York
Awards And Honors PEN/Nabokov Award (2008)
Notable Works “Antiquities” • “Art & Ardor” • “Bloodshed and Three Novellas” • “Critics, Monsters, Fanatics, and Other Literary Essays” • “Diction: A Quartet” • “Fame & Folly” • “Foreign Bodies” • “Heir to the Glimmering World” • “Metaphor & Memory” • “Quarrel & Quandary” • “The Cannibal Galaxy” • “The Din in the Head” • “The Messiah of Stockholm” • “The Puttermesser Papers” • “Trust”

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