Wikipedia's first sentence called it “american writer whose works are about jewish american life”. Today it says “american short story writer”. The one-line description Wikipedia serves to search engines and AI systems read “American writer of essays, short stories and novels”. It now reads “American writer (born 1928)”.
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April 17 , 1928 , New York City , New York ) is an American writer whose works are about Jewish American life. Ozick earned a B.A. from New York University in 1949 and a M.A. from Ohio State University in 1950. She has been awarded a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship ( 1968 ), an American Academy of Arts and Letters Award for Literature ( 1973 ), and a Guggenheim Fellowship ( 1982 ).1Her new novel Heir to the Glimmering World (2004), for some reason called The Bear Boy in the UK, has received much praise in the literary press.2She is widely considered to be a master of the modern novel.3She is on the shortlist for the 2005 Man Booker International Prize .4
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Cynthia Ozick (born April 17, 1928) is an American short story writer, novelist, and essayist.Ozick was born in New York City .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 on a broad range of topics including politics, history, and literary criticism.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 , received much praise in the literary press.Most recently, Ozick published The Din in the Head , her sixth collection of literary essays.In 1986, she was selected as the first winner of the Rea Award for the Short Story .Ozick was on the shortlist for the 2005 Man Booker International Prize , and in 2008 she was awarded the PEN/Malamud Award established by Bernard Malamud ’s family "to honor excellence in the art of the short story".
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Cynthia Ozick (born April 17, 1928) is an American-Jewish short story writer, novelist, and essayist.
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Cynthia Shoshana Ozick (born April 17, 1928) is an American short story writer, novelist, and essayist.
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American writer of essays, short stories and novels Cynthia Ozick (born April 17, 1928) is an American short story writer, novelist, and essayist.
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American writer (born 1928) Cynthia Ozick (born April 17, 1928) is an American short story writer, novelist, and essayist.
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american writer whose works are about jewish american life
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american short story writer
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