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Australian-born Geraldine Brooks is an author and journalist who grew up in the Western suburbs of Sydney, and attended Bethlehem College Ashfield and the University of Sydney. She worked as a reporter for The Sydney Morning Herald for three years as a feature writer with a special interest in environmental issues.

In 1982 she won the Greg Shackleton Australian News Correspondents scholarship to the journalism master’s program at Columbia University in New York City. Later she worked for The Wall Street Journal, where she covered crises in the the Middle East, Africa, and the Balkans.

She was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in fiction in 2006 for her novel March. Her first novel, Year of Wonders, is an international bestseller, and People of the Book is a New York Times bestseller translated into 20 languages. She is also the author of the nonfiction works Nine Parts of Desire and Foreign Correspondence.

Brooks married author Tony Horwitz in Tourette-sur-Loup, France, in 1984. They have two sons– Nathaniel and Bizuayehu–and two dogs. They divide their time between homes in Martha’s Vineyard, Massachusetts, and Sydney, Australia.

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Geraldine Brooks

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Books from Geraldine Brooks

Year of Wonders

People of the Book

March

Caleb's Crossing

The Secret Chord

Nine Parts of Desire: The Hidden World of Islamic Women

People of the Book

People of the Book

The Best American Short Stories 2011

Foreign Correspondence: A Pen Pal's Journey from Down Under to All Over

Fight of the Century: Writers Reflect on 100 Years of Landmark ACLU Cases

People of the Book (A&R classics)

People of the Book

The Best American Sampler 2011

Inside Islam: The Faith, the People and the Conflicts of the World's Fastest Growing Religion

The Idea of Home (Boyer Lectures, 2011#)

Kingdom of Olives and Ash: Writers Confront the Occupation

#SaveOzStories

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