
Recipient of the first Rea Award for the Short Story (in 1976; other winners Rea honorees include Lorrie Moore, John Updike, Alice Munro), an American Academy of Arts and Letters Mildred and Harold Strauss Living Award, and the PEN/Malamud award in 2008. Upon publication of her 1983 The Shawl, Edmund White wrote in the New York Times, "Miss Ozick strikes me as the best American writer to have emerged in recent years...Judaism has given to her what Catholicism gave to Flannery O'Connor."
Selected Stories and Essays
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2021
2016
2010
A Quartet
2008
2007
2006
2004
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Essays
2000
Fifty North American Stories Since 1970
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Essays
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1989
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1987
1983
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1976
1971
1966