[Yale-readings] Shirley Hazzard Reading at the Beinecke Library

[Nancy Kuhl]

Shirley Hazzard reads from her most recent novel The Great Fire, nominated 
for the 2003 National Book Award, Thursday, November 6 at 4 pm at the 
Beinecke Library. Free and open to the public.

 From the Yale Bulletin:
Award-winning novelist Shirley Hazzard will visit the campus on Thursday, 
Nov. 6. Hazzard will read from her works at 4 p.m. at the Beinecke Rare 
Book and Manuscript Library, 121 Wall St. The event is free and open to the 
public. Hazzard's books have been set around the world, from New York to 
Italy to Japan, and often start in the middle of the 20th century. A native 
of Australia, she delivered ABC's Boyer Lectures in 1984. In 1985, they 
were published in book form as "Coming of Age in Australia." In 1980, 
Hazzard was honored with the National Book Critics Circle Award for "The 
Transit of Venus." Hazzard's novels include "The Evening of the Holiday" 
(1966) and "The Bay of Noon" (1970). She is also the author of two 
collections of short fiction, "Cliffs of Fall and Other Stories" (1963) and 
"People in Glass Houses" (1967). Her nonfiction works include "Countenance 
of Truth," a short work about the United Nations published in 1990, and a 
short memoir about her friend Graham Greene, "Greene on Capri," published 
in 2000. Her most recent book, "The Great Fire," was published this month. 
Regarding her work, Hazzard has been quoted in an interview as saying, "I 
love novels. I love fiction. ... It's all about imagination. More and more 
our world is closing down on imagination. Instead, we have a lot of 
explanations."

Nancy Kuhl
Assistant Curator, The Yale Collection of American Literature
The Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library
Yale University
121 Wall Street
P.O. Box 208240
New Haven, CT 06520-8240
Phone: 203.432.2966
Fax: 203.432.4047
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