Hazzard and Harrower: The letters

Brigitta Olubas is professor of English at the University of New South Wales. She is the acknowledged expert on the writing of Shirley Hazzard and is Hazzard’s authorised biographer. She coedited the first collection of essays on the writing of Elizabeth Harrower and is the author of Shirley Hazzard: A writing life, shortlisted for the Prime Minister’s Award for Non-fiction and the Nib Literary Award. Susan Wyndham is a journalist and writer. As literary editor of the Sydney Morning Herald and New York correspondent for The Australian newspaper she interviewed Shirley Hazzard and Elizabeth Harrower. She is the author of Life in His Hands: The true story of a neurosurgeon and a pianist and editor of My Mother, My Father: On losing a parent.