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Cynthia Ozick (born April 17, 1928, New York City), is an American writer, the daughter of William Ozick and Celia Regelson. 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 criticism about American Letters by Georgetown University (2007). 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, has received much praise in the literary press. Most recently, Ozick published The Din in the Head, a collection of critical essays on literature. Ozick was on the shortlist for the 2005 Man Booker International Prize. In 1986, she was selected as the first winner of the Rea Award for the Short Story. She received one of the 2007 National Humanities Medals
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