The author of two novels and dozens of essays, Cynthia Ozick is best known for her three collections of short fiction, The Pagan Rabbi and Other Stories (1971), Bloodshed and Three Novellas (1976), and Levitation: Five Fictions (1982). Despite the relati...

Cynthia Ozick's stature as a writer came through a long apprenticeship, during which she often read eighteen hours a day. Having so intensely lived within literature herself, she can by a few deft allusions weave a veil of bookish imaginings through whic...

One of the most versatile contemporary American writers, Cynthia Ozick has written novels, short fiction, essays, poems, a play, and many articles and reviews. In the United States she has received the most acclaim for her short stories, while in Britain...

HARRISBURG For one group of competitors, the key ingredient for victory at the state Farm Show was a little bit of Rosemary. The Red Rose Treadling Toes and their sheep, Rosemary, took first place Wednesday at the annual sheep-to-shawl competition. "Everybody just melded together...

My mother is standing near the landing dock of a summerhouse in New Hampshire. There's a weather-beaten rowboat tied to the end of the quay. "What did you say?" she asks me. "The driver called, Mom. He's going to be late." ...

Cynthia Ozick stood before a full house of literary fans, her white hair shining as she assessed an art form that could be likened to an old, but vital patriarch _ rich, historic and, the author feared, increasingly neglected.The short story."In serious mainstream magazines nowadays,...