Cynthia Ozick

[Mirabell]

Oh my lord, I have read only one book of hers but what a writer she proved to be in it. The Puttermesser Papers was a revelation. I can't wait to read more of her work.

wikipedia has this to say

Cynthia Ozick (born April 17, 1928, New York City), is 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 Dictation: a Quartet, a collection of stories.
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.

• 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)
• Quarrel and Quandary (2000)
• 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)
• Dictation: A Quartet (2008)

[nnyhav]

Complete-Review has an page dedicated to Ozick. As well it should. They rightly put Puttermesser among their best (A+). I've read all but her first and her last two novels. (She was the featured writer for a short story class I took way back when, when Oates was otherwise engaged. Lucky.) The essays also well worth reading, she argufies well.

[nnyhav]

"Writers, Visible and Invisible" (adapted from her acceptance speech, 2008 PEN/Nabokov Lifetime Achievement Award), Sept'08 Standpoint, with considerations of Nabokov, James (via bookforum.com).