Cynthia Ozick is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters and has won various prizes and awards for her novels, short stories, poems and essays. Her books include The Pagan Rabbi and Other Stories, Bloodshed and Three Novellas, Trust (a novel), The Messiah of Stockholm (a novel), The Shawl (a novella and story), Art & Ardor (essays) and Metaphor & Memory (essays). What Henry James Knew, her most recent collection of essays, is a companion volume to Portrait of the Artist as a Bad Character. Her work has been translated into most major languages.
