IT IS LESS THAN 20 YEARS since Shirley Hazzard won the National Book Award for Fiction, yet if she retains a reputation at all, it is more for how little she wrote — four novels, two short story collections — than what she wrote. Now comes her chance for revival: a new biography that reveals the life to be just as remarkable as the work, and both to be essential to the story of twentieth-century literature.
Hazzard’s own story began in Sydney, Australia, in 1931.
