Cynthia Ozick
American novelist and essayist whose fiction explores Jewish-American identity and the Holocaust with moral and intellectual seriousness. The Shawl is one of the most celebrated stories about the Holocaust. She is one of the most important Jewish-American literary voices.
Works
- The Cannibal GalaxyNovel about a failed educator and Jewish identity in America
- The Messiah of StockholmNovella of an obsessive man claiming connection to Yiddish literature
- The ShawlNovella exploring Holocaust trauma and moral boundaries
- Heir to the Glimmering WorldNovel of a Jewish family in 1920s New York aristocracy
- Foreign BodiesNovel of a woman's search for her father's origins and identity
- The Puttermesser PapersNovella sequence following a Jewish woman's eccentric life and ambitions