with the "torment" of writing. Awards and critical acclaim In 1971, Ozick received the Edward Lewis Wallant Award and the National Jewish Book Award for her short story collection, The Pagan Rabbi and Other Stories. For Bloodshed and Three Novellas, she received, in 1977, The National Jewish Book Award for Fiction. In 1997, she received the Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay for Fame and Folly. Four of her stories won first prize in the O. Henry competition. In 1986, she was selected as the first winner of the Rea Award for the Short Story. In 2000, she won the National Book Critics Circle Award for Quarrel & Quandary. Her novel Heir to the Glimmering World (2004) (published as The Bear Boy in the United Kingdom) won high literary praise. Ozick was on the shortlist for the 2005 Man Booker International Prize, and in 2008 she was awarded the PEN/Nabokov Award and the PEN/Malamud Award, which was established by Bernard Malamud's family to honor excellence in the art of the short story. Her novel Foreign Bodies was shortlisted for the Orange Prize (2012) and the Jewish Quarterly-Wingate Prize (2013). The novelist David Foster Wallace called Ozick one of the greatest living American writers. She has been described as "the Athena of America's literary pantheon", the "Emily Dickinson of the Bronx", and "one of the most accomplished and graceful literary stylists of her time". Bibliography Novels Trust (1966) The Cannibal Galaxy (1983) The Messiah of Stockholm (1987) The Puttermesser Papers (1997) Heir to the Glimmering World (2004) (published in the United Kingdom in 2005 as The Bear Boy) Foreign Bodies (2010) Antiquities (2021) Short fiction Collections The Pagan Rabbi and Other Stories (1971) Bloodshed and Three Novellas (1976) Levitation: Five Fictions (1982) Envy; or, Yiddish in America (1969) The Shawl (1989) Collected Stories (2007) Dictation: A Quartet (2008) Stories Drama Blue Light (1994) Non-fiction Essay collections All the World Wants the Jews Dead (1974) Art and Ardor (1983) Metaphor & Memory (1989) What Henry James Knew and Other Essays on Writers (1993) Fame & Folly: Essays (1996) "SHE: Portrait of the Essay as a warm body" (1998) Quarrel & Quandary (2000) The Din in the Head: Essays (2006) Critics, Monsters, Fanatics, and Other Literary Essays (2016) David Miller, ed. Letters of Intent: Selected Essays (2017) Miscellaneous A Cynthia Ozick Reader (1996) The Complete Works of Isaac Babel (introduction 2001)