Tributes to Shirley Hazzard

Shirley Hazzard was born January 30, 1931, to a Welsh father and Scottish mother in Australia. At age sixteen she began working for British Intelligence Ser vices and in 1956 was posted to Naples. She was an essayist, novelist, and short story writer. Her books on Naples includeThe Bay of Noon(1970),Greene on Capri(2000), and her last work of nonfiction,The Ancient Shore: Dispatches from Naples(2008), co-written with her husband Frances Steegmuller. Hazzard died on December 12, 2016. Naples has had its lovers in America, but few more knowledgeable and none more passionate than Shirley Hazzard,