I wanted to use what I was, to be what I was born to be – not to have a ‘career’, but to be that straightforward obvious unmistakable animal, a writer.
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Yiddish is a household tongue, and God, like other members of the family, is sweetly informal in it.
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| Birth: | 17th April, 1928 |
| Nationality: | American |
| Profession: | Essayist, Novelist, Writer |
About
Cynthia Ozick is an American-Jewish short story writer, novelist, and essayist.Cynthia Shoshana Ozick was born in New York City, the second of two children. She moved to the Bronx with her Russian-born parents, Celia and William Ozick, proprietors of the Park View Pharmacy in the Pelham Bay neighborhood. As a girl, Ozick helped to deliver prescriptions.
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