She is also the author of the nonfiction works Nine Parts of Desire and Foreign Correspondence.īrooks married author Tony Horwitz in Tourette-sur-Loup, France, in 1984. 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 was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in fiction in 2006 for her novel March. Later she worked for The Wall Street Journal, where she covered crises in the the Middle East, Africa, and the Balkans.
In 1982 she won the Greg Shackleton Australian News Correspondents scholarship to the journalism master’s program at Columbia University in New York City. She worked as a reporter for The Sydney Morning Herald for three years as a feature writer with a special interest in environmental issues. “Louisa May Alcott would be well pleased.Librarian Note: There is more than one author in the Goodreads database with this name.Īustralian-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.
“Inspired… A disturbing, supple, and deeply satisfying story, put together with craft and care and imagery worthy of a poet.”- The Cleveland Plain Dealer “Wholly original…deeply engaging.”-Ron Charles, The Christian Science Monitor March has all the same virtues…casting a spell that lasts much longer than the reading of it.”-Karen Joy Fowler, The Washington Post World “Harrowing and moving…In her previous book, Year of Wonders, Geraldine Brooks proved herself to be a wonderful novelist. “Honorable, elegant and true.”-John Freeman, The Wall Street Journal “A beautifully wrought story….Gripping….A taut plot, vivid characters and provocative issues.”-Heller McAlpin, Los Angeles Times Book Review
“Brilliant…Geraldine Brooks’ new novel, March, is a very great book….Brooks has magnificently wielded the novelist’s license.”-Beth Kephart, Chicago Tribune A lushly written, wholly original tale steeped in the details of another time, March secures Geraldine Brooks’s place as a renowned author of historical fiction. His experiences will utterly change his marriage and challenge his most ardently held beliefs. With “pitch-perfect writing” ( USA Today), Brooks follows March as he leaves behind his family to aid the Union cause in the Civil War. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize–a powerful love story set against the backdrop of the Civil War, from the author of The Secret Chord, coming from Viking in October 2015įrom Louisa May Alcott’s beloved classic Little Women, Geraldine Brooks has animated the character of the absent father, March, and crafted a story “filled with the ache of love and marriage and with the power of war upon the mind and heart of one unforgettable man” (Sue Monk Kidd).
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