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Fame and Folly

Cynthia Ozick

From one of America's great literary figures, a collection of essays on eminent writers and their work, and on the war between art and life. The perilous intersection of writers' lives with public and private dooms is the fertile subject of many of these remarkable essays from such literary giants as T.S. Eliot, Isaac Babel, Salman Rushdie and Henry James.

Arts & CriticismArts & Criticism · medium confidenceArts & Criticism81 signalsLlm Classifier: Arts & Criticism -> Arts & CriticismGoogle Books: Biography & Autobiography -> Memoir & AutobiographyGoogle Books: Biography & Autobiography -> BiographyClass, Poverty & InequalityMedia, Journalism & Public OpinionFamily, Childhood & Adoption

Award History

1 wins · 2 total

AwardYearResultCategory / Notes
PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay1997WinnerSecondary source
Pulitzer Prize in General NonfictionMajor1997FinalistSecondary source
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  1. 01 Central figures

    None extracted with sufficient confidence.

    These suggestions did not meet the normal display threshold and are more likely to be wrong.

    • Salman Rushdie36%

  2. 02 Central places

    None extracted with sufficient confidence.

  3. 03 Suggested argument

    No argument inferred with sufficient confidence.

  4. 04 Reading orientation

    32 / 100 academic

    Serious trade

    An estimate of intended readership and scholarly apparatus—not quality or importance.

Confidence percentages are the model's own estimates. Profile confidence: 52%.