LIBRARY TRUSTEE:
Shirley Hazzard
Shirley Hazzard has been a Trustee of the New York Society Library since 1974.
BIOGRAPHY:
Hazzard has written eleven books, including the novels The Bay of Noon, The Transit of Venus, and The Great Fire (which in 2004 won the National Book Award for Fiction and the Miles Franklin Literary Award). Her critically acclaimed non-fiction includes Defeat of an Ideal: A Study of the Self-Destruction of the United Nations, Greene on Capri: A Memoir, and The Ancient Shore: Dispatches from Naples. Hazzard and her husband Francis Steegmuller (1906-1994) were the subject of the Library's exhibition, Literary Lives: The World of Francis Steegmuller & Shirley Hazzard, curated by Harriet Shapiro.
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