[4] She appears briefly in the film Town Bloody Hall, where she asks Norman Mailer, "in Advertisements for Myself you said, quote, 'A good novelist can do without everything but the remnant of his balls'.

Their daughter, Rachel Hallote, is a professor of history at SUNY Purchase and head of its Jewish studies program.

[6] A forthcoming special issue of Studies in Jewish American Literature will examine her contributions to the art of non-fiction.

[7] Ozick's fiction and essays are often about Jewish American life, but she also writes about politics, history, and literary criticism.

The critic Adam Kirsch wrote that her "career-long agon with Henry James... reaches a kind of culmination in Foreign Bodies, her polemical rewriting of The Ambassadors.

"[9] she writes that the diary's true meaning has been distorted and eviscerated "by blurb and stage, by shrewdness and naiveté, by cowardice and spirituality, by forgiveness and indifference.

[14] Her novel Heir to the Glimmering World (2004) (published as The Bear Boy in the United Kingdom) won high literary praise.