Books
The late author of acclaimed novels “The Transit of Venus” and “The Great Fire” is celebrated in a new collection of her witty 20th century stories.
Nov. 4, 2020
Obituaries
Shirley Hazzard, an award-winning novelist who wrote of love affairs disrupted and intensified by age, distance and war, has died at 85.
Dec. 14, 2016
Shirley Hazzard’s sensual novel of love and lust evokes the power of emotion to eclipse reason, as the planet Venus may cast a shadow across the face of the sun.
Sept. 16, 1990
The Ancient Shore Dispatches From Naples Shirley Hazzard and Francis Steegmuller University of Chicago Press: 144 pp., $18 If you haven’t already discovered Shirley Hazzard (especially her novel “The Transit of Venus”), then you really owe me big time.
Nov. 16, 2008
The Great Fire A Novel Shirley Hazzard Farrar, Straus and Giroux: 278 pp., $24
Oct. 19, 2003
GREENE ON CAPRI: A Memoir; By Shirley Hazzard; Farrar, Straus & Giroux; 152 pp., $22
Feb. 6, 2000
Shirley Hazzard’s long-awaited post-World War II novel won the National Book Award for fiction Wednesday night in New York.
Nov. 20, 2003
T.C. Boyle, Carol Muske-Dukes and Marianne Wiggins are among the 20 in the running.
Oct. 16, 2003
ADDISON HOUSE by Clare MacNally (Avon: $4.50).
Dec. 11, 1988
To the Editor: I was happy to read in Michael Mewshaw’s review of “Greene on Capri” by Shirley Hazzard (Book Review, Feb. 6), his account of Penelope Gilliatt’s profile of Graham Greene, published by The New Yorker in 1979.
March 12, 2000