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[[Image:Thorr hymir ormr.jpg|right|thumb|300px|Ozick at the capture of Jormungandr]]
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'''EVB-Wiki''', [[Houston]], [[Texas]], [[U.S.A.]]<br />
*"Never judge a work of art by its defects." —[[Washington Allston]]
*"Wikipedia is an encyclopaedia best served verified."
*"The [[wiki]]-[[community]] is a [[peace]] zone."<br /><br />


'''Cynthia Ozick''' (born [[April 17]], [[1928]], [[New York City]]), is an [[United States|American]] writer, the daughter of William Ozick and Celia Regelson.
==My nutshell==
;Education
Alumnus, [[Cypress Creek High School (Harris County, Texas)|Cypress Creek High School]] - 1983<br />
[[Associate's degree|A.]][[Fine arts|F.A.]], Theatre, [[Lon Morris College]] - 1986<br />
[[B.A.]], Philosophy, [[University of Houston]] - 1991<br />
''Certificate in European Legal Studies'', [[Tulane University]] School of Law's Paris Institute of European Legal Studies - 1994<br />
[[J.D.]], [[South Texas College of Law]] - 1996<br />


She earned her B.A. from New York University and went on to study English Literature at Ohio State University, where she completed an M.A.
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;Affiliations
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Licensed by the [[State Bar of Texas]] in 1996.<br />
Member of the [[College of the State Bar of Texas]] since 2000.<br />
Member of the Texas Trial Lawyers Association.<br />
Member of the Houston Bar Association.


Ozick's fiction and essays are often about Jewish American life, but she also writes criticism about American Letters by [[Georgetown University]] (2007). Furthermore, she has written and translated poetry.
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Her most recent novel, ''Heir to the Glimmering World'' (2004), called ''The Bear Boy'' in the [[United Kingdom]], has received much praise in the literary press.
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Most recently, Ozick published ''The Din in the Head'', a collection of critical essays on literature.
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Ozick was on the shortlist for the 2005 [[Man Booker International Prize]]. In 1986, she was selected as the first winner of the [[Rea Award for the Short Story]].
==My Wikipedia==
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|style="vertical-align: middle; border-top: 1px solid gray;" | Thanks for your help with the [[Nicknames of Houston]] article, as well as for your other fine contributions to Wikipedia! [[User:Postoak|Postoak]] 06:03, 28 March 2007 (UTC)
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== Partial list of works ==
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* ''[[Trust (novel)|Trust]]'' (1966)
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* ''The Pagan Rabbi and Other Stories'' (1971)
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* ''Bloodshed and Three Novellas'' (1976)
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* ''The Shawl'' (1980)
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* ''Levitation: Five Fictions'' (1982)
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* ''Art and Ardor'' (1983)
* ''The Cannibal Galaxy'' (1983)
* ''The Messiah of Stockholm'' (1987)
* ''Envy; or, Yiddish in America'' (1989)
* ''Metaphor & Memory'' (1989)
* ''The Shawl'' (1989)
* ''Blue Light'' (1994)
* ''What Henry James Knew'' (1994)
* ''A Cynthia Ozick Reader'' (1996)
* ''Fame & Folly: Essays'' (1996)
* ''[[The Puttermesser Papers]]'' (1997)
* ''The Complete Works of Isaac Babel'' (introduction 2001)
* ''Heir to the Glimmering World'' (2004) -- (published in the United Kingdom as ''The Bear Boy'' (2005)
* ''The Din in the Head: Essays'' (2006)


== Reviews ==
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* 2000 [[NY Times]]: ''The Girl Who Would Be James'' by John Sutherland [http://www.nytimes.com/books/00/10/08/reviews/001008.08suthert.html] (on Ozick's book ''Quarrel & Quandary'')
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* 2002 [[Partisan Review]]: ''Cynthia Ozick, Aesthete'' by Sanford Pinsker [http://www.bu.edu/partisanreview/archive/2002/2/pinsker.html]
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* 2005 [[The Guardian]]: ''The World is Not Enough'' by Ali Smith [http://books.guardian.co.uk/reviews/generalfiction/0,6121,1430583,00.html] (on Ozick's book ''The Bear Boy'')
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* 2006 [[Moondance magazine]]: ''Answering the Writer's Tumult -- On Cynthia Ozick's 'The Din in the Head''' by Lys Anzia [http://moondance.org/2006/winter2006/reviews/din.html]
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== External links ==
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* [http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/biography/Ozick.html Detailed biography] at the Jewish Virtual Library
*[[/ sandbox|My personal playground]]
* [http://www.thirteen.org/cityarts4/week14/my_html/uncut-week14.html Interview] at City Arts
*[http://www.themorningnews.org/archives/personalities/birnbaum_v_cynthia_ozick.php Interview] at ''The Morning News''


[[Category:1928 births|Ozick, Cynthia]]
===Textual contributions===
[[Category:Living people|Ozick, Cynthia]]
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[[Category:Jewish American writers|Ozick, Cynthia]]
'''Articles created:'''
[[Category:Members of The American Academy of Arts and Letters|Ozick, Cynthia]]
*[[Jonathan Blanchard (Wheaton)|Blanchard, Jonathan]]
*[[College of the State Bar of Texas]]
[[Category:Ohio State University alumni|Ozick, Cynthia]]
[[Category:O. Henry Award winners|Ozick, Cynthia]]
*[[C.S. Bayou City|C.S. ''Bayou City'']]
[[Category:People from New York City|Ozick, Cynthia]]
*[[The Ensemble Theatre|Ensemble Theatre, The]]
*[[Jared Bradley Flagg|Flagg, Jared Bradley]]
*[[Houston Academy for International Studies]]
*[[Houston City Hall]]
*[[Lambert Hall]]
*[[Main Street Theater]]
*[[Miller Outdoor Theatre]]
*[[Moral syncretism]]
*[[Old Man of the Lake]]
*[[Olivewood Cemetery]]
*[[Rice Hotel]]
*[[Rimbaud and modern culture]]
*[[Nina Vance|Vance, Nina]]
*[[White Oak Bayou]]
*[[Wyatt Earp's family]]
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'''Significant contributions:'''
*[[Adventist Health System]]
*[[Augustus Chapman Allen|Allen, Augustus Chapman]]
*[[John Kirby Allen|Allen, John Kirby]]
*[[Allen's Landing]]
*[[Alley Theatre]]
*[[Washington Allston|Allston, Washington]]
*[[Architecture of Houston]] *
*[[Doc Blanchard|Blanchard, Doc]]
*[[J. Don Boney|Boney, Dr. J. Don]]
*[[Contemporary Arts Museum Houston]]
*[[Linda Gregg|Gregg, Linda]]
*[[Stephen Hopkins (politician)|Hopkins, Stephen]]
*[[Lon Morris College]]
*[[Motorcycle]]
*[[Motorcycle history]]
*[[Nicknames of Houston]]
*[[Sylvia Plath|Plath, Sylvia]]
*[[Police motorcycle]]
*[[River Oaks Theatre]]
*[[Sam Houston Park]]
*[[Stages Repertory Theatre]]
*[[St. Martin's Episcopal Church (Houston, Texas)|St. Martin's Episcopal Church]]
*[[Texan schooner Brutus|Texan schooner ''Brutus'']]
*[[Trinity Church, Houston]]
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'''Stubs created:'''
*[[Auke people]]
*[[Charles A. Blanchard|Blanchard, Charles A.]]
*[[Blanchard Island]]
*[[Blanchard, Texas]]
*[[Clutch (mascot)|Clutch the Bear]]
*[[C.S. Neptune|C.S. ''Neptune'']]
*[[Currents (periodical)|''Currents: Int'l Trade L.J.'']]
*[[Audie England|England, Audie]]
*[[Esperson buildings]]
*[[Samuel Walker Houston|Houston, Samuel Walker]]
*[[Letters Home|''Letters Home'']]
*[[Market Square, Houston]]
*[[Opera in the Heights]]
*[[William Plunkett (highwayman)|Plunkett, William]]
*[[Red Dog Saloon]]
*[[Taku people]]
*[[Texan brig Wharton|Texan brig ''Wharton'']]
*[[Theatre Suburbia]]
*[[Wyatt Earp: Frontier Marshal|''Wyatt Earp: Frontier Marshal'']]
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:<small><nowiki>*</nowiki> Has been rated as a [[WP:GA|good article]]</small>


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[[Image:Kenai River Alaska.jpg|thumb|75px|center|The Kenai River, August 2003]]
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[[Image:The World in Juneau.jpg|thumb|75px|center|Cruise ship, ''The World'', in Juneau, Alaska, 2003]]
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[[Image:Patsy Ann Juneau.jpg|thumb|75px|center|Patsy Ann: "Official Greeter of Juneau"]]
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[[Image:Juneau city hall.jpg|thumb|75px|center|City Hall, Juneau, Alaska]]
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[[Image:Wyatt Earp gun Red Dog Juneau.jpg|thumb|75px|center| Wyatt Earp's pistol at the Red Dog Saloon, Juneau, Alaska]]
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[[Image:Red Dog Saloon Juneau.jpg|thumb|75px|center|The Red Dog Saloon in Juneau, Alaska]]
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[[Image:Norseman Cooper Landing.jpg|thumb|75px|center|"Spirit of the Kenai," 2003]]
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[[Image:Norseman Kenai River.jpg|thumb|75px|center|"Spirit of the Kenai," August 2003]]
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[[Image:Bungalow-Houston.JPG|thumb|75px|center|A bungalow in Houston]]
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[[Image:Olivewood pic.jpg|thumb|75px|center|Olivewood Cemetery]]
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[[Image:olivewood_sign.jpg|thumb|center|75px|Sign at Olivewood Cemetery]]
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[[Image:HCC-Ensemble Metro Rail Stop.JPG|thumb|center|75px|Ensemble/HCC Station]]
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[[Image:Stages Theatre.JPG|thumb|center|75px|Stages Repertory Theatre]]
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[[Image:RiceHotel-2.JPG|thumb|center|75px|The Rice Hotel]]
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[[Image:RiceHotel-1.JPG|thumb|center|75px|The top of the Rice Hotel]]
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[[Image:OneShellPlaza.jpg|thumb|75px|center|One Shell Plaza]]
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[[Image:LyricCentre.jpg|thumb|75px|center|The Lyric Centre]]
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[[Image:Clutch-Halloween-2005.jpg|thumb|center|75px|"Clutch" on Halloween 2005]]
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[[Image:Oak Forest Library - Houston.JPG|thumb|center|75px|Oak Forest Branch Houston Public Library]]
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[[Image:Trinity Church building.JPG|thumb|center|75px|Trinity Church]]
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[[Image:The Ensemble building.JPG|thumb|center|75px|The Ensemble building]]
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[[Image:The Ensemble Theatre.JPG|thumb|center|75px|The Ensemble Theatre]]
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[[Image:TheatreSuburbia - Houston.JPG|thumb|center|75px|Theatre Suburbia in Houston]]
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[[Image:Carillon-TxRenFest.jpg|thumb|center|75px|Cast in Bronze, Tex. Ren. Fest.]]
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[[Image:Evb-my hog.jpg|thumb|75px|center|My Heritage Softail Classic]]
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[[Image:5-gear foward.JPG|thumb|center|75px|The transmission on my Sportster]]
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[[Image:HD 883 Hugger.JPG|thumb|center|75px|My Sportster Hugger]]
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[[fr:Cynthia Ozick]]
==External links==
[[pl:Cynthia Ozick]]
*[http://www.members.aol.com/evbesq/evbesq.html My AOL Homepage]
[[yi:סינטיא אזיק]]
*[http://www.myspace.com/ericvblanchard Buster] on MySpace.com


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File:Thorr hymir ormr.jpg
Ozick at the capture of Jormungandr

Cynthia Ozick (born April 17, 1928, New York City), is an American writer, the daughter of William Ozick and Celia Regelson.

She earned her B.A. from New York University and went on to study English Literature at Ohio State University, where she completed an M.A.

Ozick's fiction and essays are often about Jewish American life, but she also writes criticism about American Letters by Georgetown University (2007). Furthermore, she has written and translated poetry.

Her most recent novel, Heir to the Glimmering World (2004), called The Bear Boy in the United Kingdom, has received much praise in the literary press.

Most recently, Ozick published The Din in the Head, a collection of critical essays on literature.

Ozick was on the shortlist for the 2005 Man Booker International Prize. In 1986, she was selected as the first winner of the Rea Award for the Short Story.

Partial list of works

  • Trust (1966)
  • The Pagan Rabbi and Other Stories (1971)
  • Bloodshed and Three Novellas (1976)
  • The Shawl (1980)
  • Levitation: Five Fictions (1982)
  • Art and Ardor (1983)
  • The Cannibal Galaxy (1983)
  • The Messiah of Stockholm (1987)
  • Envy; or, Yiddish in America (1989)
  • Metaphor & Memory (1989)
  • The Shawl (1989)
  • Blue Light (1994)
  • What Henry James Knew (1994)
  • A Cynthia Ozick Reader (1996)
  • Fame & Folly: Essays (1996)
  • The Puttermesser Papers (1997)
  • The Complete Works of Isaac Babel (introduction 2001)
  • Heir to the Glimmering World (2004) -- (published in the United Kingdom as The Bear Boy (2005)
  • The Din in the Head: Essays (2006)

Reviews

  • 2000 NY Times: The Girl Who Would Be James by John Sutherland [1] (on Ozick's book Quarrel & Quandary)
  • 2005 The Guardian: The World is Not Enough by Ali Smith [3] (on Ozick's book The Bear Boy)
  • 2006 Moondance magazine: Answering the Writer's Tumult -- On Cynthia Ozick's 'The Din in the Head' by Lys Anzia [4]


Quelle: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special%3ADiff%2F176838399