orig. Amos Klausner
born May 4, 1939, Jerusalem, Israel
Israeli novelist, short-story writer, and essayist.
A second-generation Israeli, Oz lived primarily on a kibbutz from the 1950s to the 1980s. He served in the Israeli Army (1957–60, 1967, and 1973) but later became a leading advocate of peace. His symbolic works
including Where the Jackals Howl, and Other Stories (1965); My Michael (1968), perhaps his best-known novel; and Black Box (1987)
reflect the conflicts in Israeli life.