Susan Wyndham

At last I read her books, reminding myself to breathe, wondering if her characters could extricate themselves from her finely spun web of psychological torment. I seized my chance to interview Elizabeth Harrower again... Elizabeth Harrower wrote some of the most intense, original, and highly regarded novels of the twentieth century. Then she abruptly stopped writing in the 1970s and...

Shirley Hazzard and Elizabeth Harrower met in person for the first time in London in 1972, six years after they began a correspondence that would span four decades. They exchanged letters, cards, and telegrams, and made occasional phone calls between Harrower's home in Sydney and Hazzard's apartments in New York, Naples, and Capri. The two women wrote to each other...