Shirley Hazzard and Francis Steegmuller correspondence

MLMSS 11586

fonds

1976-2007

9662497

0.02 metres of textual material (1 folder)

Shirley Hazzard (1931–2016) was an expatriate Australian novelist, short story writer and essayist. She was born in Sydney but left Australia with her family in 1947, moving to Hong Kong, Italy and New Zealand before making a home in New York. In 1980, The Transit of Venus brought her international acclaim and won the National Book Critics Circle Award. Her 2003 novel, The Great Fire won the U.S. National Book Award for Fiction, the Miles Franklin Award and the William Dean Howells Medal. In 2010, Hazzard's 1970 novel, The Bay of Noon, was shortlisted for the Lost Man Booker Prize. In 1963 she married Francis Steegmuller (1906-1994). Steegmuller was an American novelist, biographer and translator noted for his work on Gustav Flaubert, and biographies of Jean Cocteau, Isadora Duncan and Guy de Maupassant.

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Library correspondence file

Comprises correspondence to Hazzard and Steegmuller in New York and Naples from authors Sumner Locke Elliott, Christina Stead, Murray Bail, writer and critic John Colmer, biographer Hazel Rowley and a draft letter from Hazzard to Salley Vickers.

Christina Stead to Shirley Hazzard, 6 October 1976

John Colmer to Francis Steegmuller, 15 April 1977

Sumner Locke Elliott to Shirley Hazzard, 22 June 1984

Sumner Locke Elliott to Shirley Hazzard, 30 June 1984 including New York Times clipping of advertisement for Careful He Might Hear You, The Paris, 20 June 1984

Murray Bail to Shirley Hazzard, 20 August [ca. 1984]

Sumner Locke Elliott to Shirley Hazzard, 25 September 1984

Sumner Locke Elliott to Shirley Hazzard & Francis Steegmuller, 1 July 1988

Sumner Locke Elliott to Shirley Hazzard & Francis Steegmuller, 22 July 1988

Sumner Locke Elliott to Shirley Hazzard, 30 July 1988

Shirley Hazzard to Hazel Rowley, 7 August 1988 (photocopy)

Sumner Locke Elliott to Shirley Hazzard, 27 April 1990

A copy of Patrick White obituary, New York Times, 1 October 1990 sent by Sumner Locke Elliott to
Shirley Hazzard, 10 October 1990

Sumner Locke Elliott to Shirley Hazzard, 26 May 1991

Shirley Hazzard to Salley Vickers (draft), 19 March 2007

Correspondence is arranged chronologically

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