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Cynthia Ozick: Heir to the Glimmering World

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  • ABOUT Cynthia Ozick

    Cynthia Ozick 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.

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To imagine the unimaginable is the highest use of the imagination       

Click play to listen. Recorded on November 13, 2004.

The award-winning American author's newest novel shows her at the height of her powers. Set in Depression-era Bronx and focused on the lives of perpetual outsiders brought together by coincidence and fate, the story is inspired in part by the real-life "Christopher Robin."

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Jewish Literature, The Great Depression

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