They divide their time between homes in Martha’s Vineyard, Massachusetts, and Sydney, Australia. They have two sons– Nathaniel and Bizuayehu–and two dogs. 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. She was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in fiction in 2006 for her novel March 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. Later she worked for The Wall Street Journal, where she covered crises in the the Middle East, Africa, and the Balkans. A resolute, blue-eyed brunette with attractive, slightly pinched features, Geraldine Brooks was born to a Dutch couple on October 29, 1925, in New York City.

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. Librarian Note: There is more than one author in the Goodreads database with this name.

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