02979cam a2200313 i 4500 611256365 TxAuBib 20230113120000.0 220629s2022||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2022023665 9780374113377 HRD 35.00 0374113378 HRD 35.00 TxAuBib rda Olubas, Brigitta, author. Shirley Hazzard [BOOK] : a writing life / Brigitta Olubas. First edition. New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2022. x, 564 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Includes bibliographical references (pages 469-535) and index. Reggie's daughter : 1931-1947 -- A first glimpse of the unknown : 1947-1948 -- Sea-girt, southerly, sundered : 1948-1951 -- New York : 1951-1957 -- A larger life : 1957-1958 -- Sì, Scrivo! : 1958-1963 -- Francis : 1906-1963 -- Amitiae littaeraire : 1963-1966 -- Small masterpieces : 1966-1970 -- The transit of Venus : 1970-1980 -- A fated connection : 1980-1985 -- The room not as I thought it was : 1981-1994 -- Sola solissima : 1995-2016. 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 (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. Provided by publisher. 20230113. Hazzard, Shirley 1931-2016. Women authors, Australian 20th century Biography. Women authors, American 20th century Biography.