The authorised biography of Shirley Hazzard, one of the greatest
writers in the English language, author of The Transit of Venus and
winner of the National Book Award 'Lambent, discerning, deeply
intelligent and empathetic' Lucy Scholes, Financial Times
'Impeccably researched and deeply incisive' Lily King, New York
Times 'A refined, deeply insightful perspective' Chloe Schama,
Vogue 'Absorbing, well-crafted... scrupulously researched' Kirkus
Born and raised in Sydney Australia, Hazzard lived around the
world: in Hong Kong; Wellington, New Zealand; New York; Naples and
Capri and her writing -- cosmopolitan, richly intelligent,
beautiful, questing -- reflects her life. Her body of work is small
but the acclaim it attracts is immeasurable, from among others,
Michael Cunningham, Zoe Heller, Ann Patchett, Anne Tyler, Lauren
Goff, Hermione Lee, Joan Didion, Richard Ford, Colm Toibin. At
sixteen, she was living in Hong Kong with her family and working
for the British Combined Services. She later worked, another desk
job, for the United Nations in New York and, briefly, in Naples.
Italy -- Capri and Naples -- claimed her heart and after she was
married -- she was introduced to the biographer, Francis
Steegmuller by Muriel Spark -- they divided their time between
Italy and America. Drawing on diaries, letters, interviews
alongside a close reading of Hazzard's fiction -- Brigitta Olubas,
herself Australian -- tells the story of a girl from the suburbs
'with a head full of poetry' who fell early under the spell of
words and sought out first books and then people who loved books as
her companions. In the process she transformed and indeed created
her life. She became a woman of the world who felt injustice
keenly, a deep and original thinker, who wrote some of the most
beautiful fiction about love and longing, always with an eye to the
ways we reveal ourselves to another. This, the definitive biography
uncovers the truths and myths and about Shirley Hazzard's life and
work, which come together at the point, as Brigitta Olubas
observes: 'where the writer lives'.
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