Cynthia Ozick

Recipient of the first Rea Award for the Short Story (in 1976; other winners Rea honorees include Lorrie Moore, John Updike, Alice Munro), an American Academy of Arts and Letters Mildred and Harold Strauss Living Award, and the PEN/Malamud award in 2008.Upon publication of her 1983 The Shawl, Edmund White wrote in the New York Times, "Miss Ozick strikes me as the best American writer to have emerged in recent years...Judaism has given to her what Catholicism gave to Flannery O'Connor."

Quotes

Talia Garzahas quoted2 years ago
"You don't really believe," he asked—it
Talia Garzahas quoted2 years ago
"You don't really believe," he asked—it was accusation rather than question—"that literature has nothing to do with psychology, with biography or society or history?" I did believe it; I had been trained to believe it. Who of my generation was not susceptible to that aesthetic casuistry?
Talia Garzahas quoted2 years ago
The seminar, he wrote,
needs a total intellectual and emotional involvement that I shld never want to make.... And then the students dismay me ... But then all
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