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(1931-2016) Novelist. Shirley Hazzard was born in Sydney, australia, and died in Manhattan, New York.

Full Name

Shirley Hazzard

Locations

New York

Author's Timeline


Unknown

RESIDENCE

Ms. Hazzard lived on the Upper East Side of Manhattan in Manhattan, New York.

1931

BIRTH

Shirley Hazzard was born in Sydney, Australia, on January 30, 1931.

1950

OTHER

Ms. Hazzard worked for the United Nations Secretariat in Manhattan, New York, for several years during the 1950s.

1963

LITWORK

Cliffs of Fall
Knopf

Collection of short stories.

1966

LITWORK

The Evening of the Holiday
Alfred A. Knopf
0333005333 / 978-0333005330
Novel.

1967

LITWORK

People in Glass Houses: Portraits from Organization Life
Knopf

Collection of stories.

1970

LITWORK

The Bay of Noon
Little Brown
9997550986 / 978-9997550989
Novel.

1980

LITWORK

The Transit of Venus
Macmillan
0333277511 / 978-0333277515
Novel; winner of the 1980 National Book Critics Circle Award for fiction..

1990

LITWORK

Countenance of Truth: The United Nations and the Waldheim Case
Viking Press

Nonfiction.

2000

LITWORK

Greene on Capri
Farrar Straus & Giroux
0374166757 / 978-0374166755
Memoir.

2003

LITWORK

The Great Fire
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
0374166447 / 978-0374166441
Novel, winner of the 2003 National Book Award for fiction.

2008

LITWORK

The Ancient Shore: Dispatches From Naples
University Of Chicago Press
0226322017 / 978-0226322018
Nonfiction written with her husband, Francis Steegmuller.

2016

DEATH

Shirley Hazzard died at her home in Manhattan, New York, on December 12, 2016.

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