Cynthia Ozick

Cynthia S. Ozick (born April 17, 1928) is an American novelist, short story writer and essayist. She mostly writes fiction. However, she also writes literary criticism, politics and history.
Ozick received an Edward Lewis Wallant Award and the National Jewish Book Award for her short story collection, "The Pagan Rabbi and Other Stories" in 1971. She received the National Jewish Book Award for Fiction in 1977 for her book "Bloodshed and Three Novellas".
Ozick was selected as the winner of a Rea Award for the Short Story in 1986.
The novelist David Foster Wallace called Ozick one of the greatest living American writers.