WRITER

Cynthia Ozick

1928 - Today

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Cynthia Ozick (born April 17, 1928) is an American short story writer, novelist, and essayist. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Cynthia Ozick has received more than 373,948 page views. Her biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 17 in 2019). Cynthia Ozick is the 6,211th most popular writer (down from 5,720th in 2019), the 10,755th most popular biography from United States (down from 10,565th in 2019) and the 798th most popular American Writer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 370k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 42.66

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 19

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.39

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.29

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

Bloodshed and three novellas
English Short stories, Fiction, Jews
1973
The pagan rabbi, and other stories
American fiction, Fiction, Jews
1972
Levitation
Jews, Fiction, American Authors
1982
The Puttermesser Papers
Fiction, Jewish women, Women mayors
1997
Trust
Fiction, Stepfamilies, Fathers and daughters
1966
Foreign bodies
Large type books, Interpersonal relations, Americans
The collapse of her brief marriage has stalled Bea Nightingale's life, leaving her middle-aged and alone, teaching in an impoverished borough of 1950s New York. A plea from her estranged brother gives Bea the excuse to escape lassitude by leaving for Paris to retrieve a nephew she barely knows; but the siren call of Europe threatens to deafen Bea to the dangers of entangling herself in the lives of her brother's family. Travelling from America to France, Bea leaves the stigma of divorce on the far side of the Atlantic; newly liberated, she chooses to defend her nephew and his girlfriend Lili by waging a war of letters on the brother she has promised to help. But Bea's generosity is a mixed blessing: those she tries to help seem to be harmed, and as Bea's family unravel from around her, she finds herself once again drawn to the husband she thought she had left in the past ... By one of America's great living writers, Foreign Bodies is a truly virtuosic novel. The story of Bea's travails on the continent is a fierce and heartbreaking insight into the curious nature of love: how it can be commanded and abused; earned and cherished; or even lost altogether.
2010
Trust
Fiction, Stepfamilies, Fathers and daughters
1966
The pagan rabbi, and other stories
American fiction, Fiction, Jews
1972
Levitation
Jews, Fiction, American Authors
1982
Bloodshed and three novellas
English Short stories, Fiction, Jews
1973
The Puttermesser Papers
Fiction, Jewish women, Women mayors
1997
Foreign bodies
Large type books, Interpersonal relations, Americans
The collapse of her brief marriage has stalled Bea Nightingale's life, leaving her middle-aged and alone, teaching in an impoverished borough of 1950s New York. A plea from her estranged brother gives Bea the excuse to escape lassitude by leaving for Paris to retrieve a nephew she barely knows; but the siren call of Europe threatens to deafen Bea to the dangers of entangling herself in the lives of her brother's family. Travelling from America to France, Bea leaves the stigma of divorce on the far side of the Atlantic; newly liberated, she chooses to defend her nephew and his girlfriend Lili by waging a war of letters on the brother she has promised to help. But Bea's generosity is a mixed blessing: those she tries to help seem to be harmed, and as Bea's family unravel from around her, she finds herself once again drawn to the husband she thought she had left in the past ... By one of America's great living writers, Foreign Bodies is a truly virtuosic novel. The story of Bea's travails on the continent is a fierce and heartbreaking insight into the curious nature of love: how it can be commanded and abused; earned and cherished; or even lost altogether.
2010

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Cynthia Ozick ranks 6,211 out of 7,302. Before her are Glenn Greenwald, Brian Jacques, Emma Willard, Flora Nwapa, Pentti Haanpää, and Wolfdietrich Schnurre. After her are Mikhail Gurevich, China Miéville, R. D. Blackmore, Nahum Tate, Mary Lamb, and Lawrence Venuti.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1928, Cynthia Ozick ranks 539. Before her are Ernestine Anderson, Imre Hódos, Samuel Adler, Stig Sjölin, Vanessa Brown, and Vern Mikkelsen. After her are Ivan Kizimov, Vasile Tiță, Serge Blusson, Udham Singh, Stig Claesson, and Shiro Hashizume.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Cynthia Ozick ranks 10,755 out of 20,380. Before her are Mindy Kaling (1979), Edward Andrews (1914), Genevieve Cortese (1981), Richard Bassett (1745), Vanessa Ferlito (1980), and Alice White (1904). After her are Lewis Black (1948), Kevin Williamson (1965), Virgil Jacomini (1899), Marley Shelton (1974), Len Wiseman (1973), and Elena Kagan (1960).

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Among WRITERS In United States

Among writers born in United States, Cynthia Ozick ranks 798. Before her are Amory Lovins (1947), Mike Godwin (1956), Alain LeRoy Locke (1885), Lorraine Hansberry (1930), Glenn Greenwald (1967), and Emma Willard (1787). After her are Lawrence Venuti (1953), George Alec Effinger (1947), N. Scott Momaday (1934), Cecily von Ziegesar (1970), Wallace Stegner (1909), and Eleanor Hallowell Abbott (1872).

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