Question: Who was born first, Thomas Wolfe or Cynthia Ozick?
Context: Confrontation is an American literary magazine founded in 1968 and based at Long Island University in Brookville, New York.  It publishes fiction, essays and poetry twice each year.  The journal, edited from its inception to 2010 by LIU Post English professor and poet Martin Tucker, helped launch the careers of Cynthia Ozick, Paul Theroux and Walter Abish. Dictation: A Quartet (2008) is the seventh collection of stories by American Author Cynthia Ozick. Leo Bebb is a fictional clergyman who is featured in "The Book of Bebb", a tetralogy by Frederick Buechner.  Cynthia Ozick calls him a "lustily flawed hero". Cynthia Shoshana Ozick (born April 17, 1928) is an American short story writer, novelist, and essayist. The Shawl is a short story first published by Cynthia Ozick in 1980 in "The New Yorker".  It tells the story of three characters: Rosa, Magda, and Stella on their march to and internment in a Nazi concentration camp.  The Shawl is noted for its ability to instill in the reader the horror of the Holocaust in less than 2,000 words. Sarah Blacher Cohen (June 11, 1936 in Appleton, Wisconsin, – November 10, 2008 in Albany, New York) was a writer, scholar, and playwright, and a professor at SUNY Albany for 30 years.  Her area of specialty was Jewish American fiction.  Her published books include "Comic Relief: Humor in Contemporary American Literature", "Saul Bellow's Enigmatic Laughter" (1974), and "Cynthia Ozick's Comic Art: From Levity to Liturgy".  She edited "From Hester Street to Hollywood: The Jewish-American Stage and Screen" (Jewish Literature and Culture Series), "Making a Scene: The Contemporary Drama of Jewish-American Women", and "Jewish Wry: Essays on Jewish Humor".  Her plays include "The Ladies Locker Room", and "Molly Picon's Return Engagement", a biographical play with music on the star of Yiddish theater.  She collaborated with Joanne Koch, starting in 1989 on "Sophie, Totie, and Belle", a musical on performers Sophie Tucker, Totie Fields, and Belle Barth.  'She and Joanne Koch also co-authored the plays "Danny Kaye: Supreme Court Jester", "Soul Sisters", "Henrietta Szold: Woman of Valor", an adaptation of Saul Bellow stories entitled "Saul Bellow's Stories Onstage: The Old System and a Silver Dish", and the multicultural musical "Soul Sisters".  Cohen and Koch co-edited an anthology of ten plays "Shared Stages: Ten American Dramas of Blacks and Jews", including "Driving Miss Daisy", "Fires in the Mirror", and "Soul Sisters".  She collaborated with Isaac Bashevis Singer on the off-Broadway play "Schlemiel the First".  Cohen also gave talks and delivered papers, including "The Unkosher Comediennes: From Sophie Tucker to Joan Rivers."  She was married to Gary Cohen.  She died of Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease on November 10, 2008 age 72. The Thomas Wolfe House, also known as the Thomas Wolfe Memorial, is a state historic site, historic house and museum located at 52 North Market Street in downtown Asheville, North Carolina.  The American author Thomas Wolfe (1900-1938) lived in the home during his boyhood.  The house was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1971 for its association with Wolfe.  It is located in the Downtown Asheville Historic District. Thomas Clayton Wolfe (October 3, 1900 – September 15, 1938) was an American novelist of the early twentieth century. Look Homeward, Angel: A Story of the Buried Life is a 1929 novel by Thomas Wolfe.  It is Wolfe's first novel, and is considered a highly autobiographical American coming-of-age story.  The character of Eugene Gant is generally believed to be a depiction of Wolfe himself.  The novel covers the span of time from Eugene's birth to the age of 19.  The setting is the fictional town and state of Altamont, Catawba, a fictionalization of his home town, Asheville, North Carolina.  Playwright Ketti Frings wrote a theatrical adaptation of Wolfe's work in a 1957 play of the same title. The Pagan Rabbi and Other Stories (1971) is the second book and first collection of stories published by American author Cynthia Ozick.  "The Pagan Rabbi" and "Envy; or, Yiddish in America", along with an interview with the author, were later collected as an audio book in 1989 read by Ron Rifkin and Mitchell Greenberg.
Answer: Thomas Clayton Wolfe