Ozick, Cynthia (1928– )

US writer. She is known for her mystical and supernatural fiction that often draws on Judaic law and history, as in The Pagan Rabbi, and Other Stories (1971), and Levitation: Five Fictions (1982).

Ozick was born in New York, New York. She studied at New York University (BA 1949), and Ohio State University (MA 1950). She worked as an advertising copywriter in Boston (1952–53), taught at New York University (1964–65), and was artist-in-residence at City College (1981–82). She lived in New Rochelle, New York, and wrote novels, short stories, essays, literary criticism, and translations.