Cynthia Ozick (Author of The Shawl)

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Cynthia Ozick

Born

in New York City, The United States

April 17, 1928

Genre

Literature & Fiction, Short Stories

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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."

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Average rating: 3.71 · 37,412 ratings · 3,709 reviews · 101 distinct works 鈥� Similar authors

	The Shawl 3.90 avg rating — 4,735 ratings — published 1989	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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“We take for granted the very things that most deserve our gratitude.”
― Cynthia Ozick

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“What we remember from childhood we remember forever - permanent ghosts, stamped, inked, imprinted, eternally seen.”
― Cynthia Ozick

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“If we had to say what writing is, we would have to define it essentially as an act of courage.”
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May 2017 Short Story Poll

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button by F. Scott Fitzgerald, 64 pages, 1922

71 votes, 22.9%

Night by Elie Wiesel, 120 pages, 1958

44 votes, 14.2%

A Good Man Is Hard To Find by Flannery O'Connor, 24 pages, 1955

36 votes, 11.6%

The Velveteen Rabbit by Margery Williams, 40 pages, 1923

22 votes, 7.1%

First Love by Ivan Turgenev, 124 pages, 1856

18 votes, 5.8%

Babette's Feast by Isak Dinesen, 54 pages, 1958

16 votes, 5.2%

How Much Land Does a Man Need by Leo Tolstoy, 66 pages, 1886

16 votes, 5.2%

Jonathan Livingston Seagull by Richard Bach, 112 pages, 1970

14 votes, 4.5%

The Garden Party and Other Stories Title Story by Katherine Mansfield, very few pages, 1922

13 votes, 4.2%

Passing by Nella Larsen, 122 pages, 1929

12 votes, 3.9%

R.U.R. by Karel 膶apek, 58 pages, 1920

12 votes, 3.9%

The Bridge of San Luis Rey by Thornton Wilder, 138 pages, 1937

11 votes, 3.5%

Green Tea by J. Sheridan Le Fanu, 88 pages, 1872

10 votes, 3.2%

The Shawl by Cynthia Ozick, 69 pages, 1989

8 votes, 2.6%

Sultana's Dream by Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain, 64 pages, 1905

7 votes, 2.3%

310 total votes

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