Shirley Hazzard

Shirley Hazzard (30 January 1931 – 12 December 2016) was an Australian-born American author of fiction and non-fiction. She was born in Australia, but held citizenship of the United States. Her 1970 novel, The Bay of Noon, was shortlisted for the Lost Man Booker Prize in 2010
and her 2003 novel The Great Fire won the U.S. National Book Award for Fiction."National Book Awards – 2003" . National Book Foundation. Retrieved 2012-03-27. (With acceptance speech by Hazzard, introduction by Antonya Nelson (dead link 2012-03-27), and essays by Julie Barer and Cecily Patterson from the Awards 60-year anniversary blog.)

Hazzard died in New York City on 12 December 2016 from complications of dementia, aged 85.Shirley Hazzard, Novelist Who Charted Storm-Tossed Lives, Dies at 85

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