Cynthia Ozick is acclaimed for her many works of fiction and criticism. She was a finalist for the National Book Award for her previous novel,
The Puttermesser Papers, which was named one of the top ten books of the year by the
New York Times Book Review, Publishers Weekly, and the
Los Angeles Times Book Review. Her most recent essay collection,
Quarrel & Quandary, won the 2001 National Book Critics Circle Award for criticism. Ozick's work has been translated into thirteen languages worldwide. Her classic novella
The Shawl was produced for the stage in New York, directed by Sidney Lumet.
She has published widely - beginning with the novel
Trust in 1966. Over the years she has written poems, short stories, essays, novels, and plays. Among them:
The Pagan Rabbi and Other Stories (1971);
Art & Ardor: Essays (1983);
The Cannibal Galaxy (1983);
The Messiah of Stockholm (1987);
Metaphor & Memory: Essays (1989);
The Shawl (1989);
Epodes: The First Poems (1992);
Portrait of the Artist as a Bad Character and Other Essays on Writing (1994); and
Fame & Folly (1996). Her many awards include a Guggenheim fellowship and the Mildred and Harold Strauss Living Award from the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters.
David L. Ulin
David L. Ulin is the author of
The Myth of Solid Ground: Earthquakes, Prediction, and the Fault Line Between Reason and Faith, published by Viking in August 2004. He edited
Another City: Writing from Los Angeles (City Lights), selected by the
Los Angeles Times Book Review as a Best Book of 2001, and
Writing Los Angeles: A Literary Anthology (Library of America), which received a California Book Award, and was selected by the
Los Angeles Times Book Review as a Best of the Best for 2002. His essays and criticism have appeared in
The Atlantic Monthly, The Nation, The New York Times Book Review, LA Weekly, the Los Angeles Times, and on National Public Radio's
All Things Considered. He teaches in the MFA in Creative Writing Program at Antioch University Los Angeles.
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