Cynthia Ozick was born in New York City to Russian-Jewish parents. She received a B.A. from New York University and a M.A. from Ohio State University. She is a 1982 Guggenheim Fellow and received a Mildred and Harold Strauss Living award from the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters. She writes about politics, history, and literary criticism. The Holocaust is a recurring theme, and she often writes about life as a Jewish American.

I am Jewish
2004
ISBN 9781683361213
Antiquities
2021
ISBN 9780593318829
On Suicide: Great Writers on the Ultimate Question
1992
ISBN 9780811802314
The Man that Corrupted Hadleyburg, and Other Stories and Essays
1900
ISBN 9780809531592
The Cossacks
1863
ISBN 9780241573778
The pagan rabbi, and other stories
1972
ISBN 9780525484011
Levitation
1982
ISBN 9780140067163
The Messiah of Stockholm
1987
ISBN 9780394756943
The shawl
1989
ISBN 9780394579764
What Henry James knew and other essays on writers
1993
ISBN 9780224033299
The Puttermesser Papers
1997
ISBN 9780099289456
The Best American Essays 1998 (Best American)
1998
ISBN 9780395860519
Puttermesser Papers
1999
ISBN 9780224059985
The Din in the Head
2006
ISBN 9780618872589
Critics, Monsters, Fanatics, and Other Literary Essays
2016
ISBN 9780544703711
In a Yellow Wood
2025
ISBN 9781841594316