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The novelist Shirley Hazzard in 2005. Born in Australia, she spent decades in New York.
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Shirley Hazzard
Died on December 12, 2016 at age 85
Ms. Hazzard was the Australian-born author of an acclaimed if small portfolio of fiction peopled with characters whose lives, much like her own, toss them up far from home.
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