Cynthia Ozick, author portrait
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Cynthia Ozick

CYNTHIA OZICK, a recipient of a Lannan Literary Award for fiction and a National Book Critics Circle winner for essays, is the author of Trust, The Messiah of Stockholm, The Shawl, and The Puttermesser Papers, and many others. She lives in New York.
In a Yellow Wood
Antiquities and Other Stories
Quarrel & Quandary
The Puttermesser Papers
Fame & Folly
Metaphor & Memory
The Shawl
The Messiah of Stockholm

Books

In a Yellow Wood
Antiquities and Other Stories
Quarrel & Quandary
The Puttermesser Papers
Fame & Folly
Metaphor & Memory
The Shawl
The Messiah of Stockholm

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