The first biography of Shirley Hazzard, the author of The Transit of Venus and a writer of -shocking wisdom- and -intellectual thrill- (The New Yorker).
Shirley 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; 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, accompanied by rare photographs from Hazzard-s collection and elsew
