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Shirley Hazzard

Biography

Shirley Hazzard is the author of Greene on Capri, a memoir of Graham Greene, and several works of fiction, including The Evening of The Holiday, The Bay of Noon, and The Transit of Venus, winner of the 1981 National Book Critics' Circle Award. She lives in New York City and Capri.

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jwinso commented on Shirley Hazzard's profile  

I loved Transit of Venus. Beautifully written, each sentence is worth rereading. I savored it and keep it on my bookshelf. Her other books are very disappointing however.

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