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Item Information   Copy / Holding Information     Booklist Review     Library Journal Review     Publisher Weekly Review     Table of Contents     More Content       More by this author     Olubas, Brigitta.     Subjects     Hazzard, Shirley, 1931-2016.     Women authors, Australian -- 20th century -- Biography.     Authors, Australian -- 20th century -- Biography.     Women authors, American -- 20th century -- Biography.     Authors, American -- 20th century -- Biography.     Women novelists, Australian -- Biography.     Novelists, Australian -- Biography.     Novelists, American -- 20th century -- Biography.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Olubas, Brigitta.       by title:      Shirley Hazzard : a ...       by call number:      921 H431o     Search the Web     Olubas, Brigitta.     Hazzard, Shirley, 1931-2016.     Women authors, Australian -- 20th century -- Biography.     Authors, Australian -- 20th century -- Biography.     Women authors, American -- 20th century -- Biography.     Authors, American -- 20th century -- Biography.     Women novelists, Australian -- Biography.     Novelists, Australian -- Biography.     Novelists, American -- 20th century -- Biography.       MARC Display

Shirley Hazzard : a writing life / Brigitta Olubas. by Olubas, Brigitta. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2022. Call #: 921 H431o Subjects Hazzard, Shirley, 1931-2016.   Women authors, Australian -- 20th century -- Biography.   Authors, Australian -- 20th century -- Biography.   Women authors, American -- 20th century -- Biography.   Authors, American -- 20th century -- Biography.   Women novelists, Australian -- Biography.   Novelists, Australian -- Biography.   Novelists, American -- 20th century -- Biography. ISBN:  9780374113377 (hc) Edition:  1st ed. Description:  x, 564 p., 32 unnumbered p. of plates : ill. (some color) ; 24 cm. Bibliography:  Includes bibliographical references and index. Summary:  "hirley Hazzard: A Writing Life tells the extraordinary story of a great modern novelist. Brigitta Olubas, Hazzard’s authorized biographer, has drawn, with great subtlety and understanding, on her fiction (itself largely based on Hazzard’s own experience); on an extensive archive of letters, diaries, and notebooks; and on the memories of surviving friends and colleagues to create this resonant portrait of an exceptional woman. This biography explores the distinctive times of Hazzard’s life, from her youth and middle age to her widowhood and years of decline, and traces the complex and intricate processes of self-fashioning that lay beneath Hazzard’s formidable, beguiling presence. Olubas shows us the places of Hazzard’s life, of which she wrote with characteristic lyricism: her childhood in Depression-era Sydney; her youth in postwar Hong Kong, New Zealand, and London; her years in New York in the 1950s, working at the United Nations and The New Yorker. Olubas also describes Hazzard’s long marriage to the writer Francis Steegmuller and their deep involvement in postwar Naples and Capri. Rare photographs from Hazzard’s collection and elsewhere accompany the text. Hazzard was the last of a generation of self-taught writers, devotees of a great literary tradition, and her depth of perception and expressive gifts have earned her iconic status. Brigitta Olubas has brought her brilliantly alive, enhancing and deepening our understanding of the singular woman who created some of the most enduring fiction of the past sixty years. As Dwight Garner wrote in The New York Times, “Hazzard’s stories feel timeless because she understands, as she writes in one of them: ‘We are human beings, not rational ones.’” Here, in Shirley Hazzard, is the story of a remarkable human being."--Publisher. Genre:  Biographies. Holds:  1   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Item type Status   Central Library Adult Biography 921 H431o Core Collection - Adult Checked in Add Copy to MyList

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