Geraldine Brooks

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Geraldine Brooks

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January 01, 1955

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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 B...more


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So pleased to be invited to the first Iceland Writers Retreat. From 9-13 April 2014, the retreat will bring published and aspiring fiction and non-fiction writers to Reykjavík. I’m looking forward to visiting the wild land of the sagas (ideally from the saddle of an Icelandic pony), learning aboutIceland’s rich literary tradition and meeting contemporary [...]
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Average rating: 3.89 · 166,666 ratings · 20,358 reviews · 17 distinct works · Similar authors
Year of Wonders
3.97 of 5 stars 3.97 avg rating — 56,525 ratings — published 2001 — 52 editions
People of the Book
3.93 of 5 stars 3.93 avg rating — 54,124 ratings — published 2008 — 18 editions
March
3.68 of 5 stars 3.68 avg rating — 25,626 ratings — published 2005 — 30 editions
Caleb's Crossing
3.77 of 5 stars 3.77 avg rating — 22,777 ratings — published 2011 — 27 editions
Nine Parts of Desire: The H...
4.02 of 5 stars 4.02 avg rating — 6,063 ratings — published 1994 — 29 editions
The Best American Short Sto...
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3.73 of 5 stars 3.73 avg rating — 799 ratings — published 2011 — 4 editions
Foreign Correspondence: A P...
3.72 of 5 stars 3.72 avg rating — 634 ratings — published 1997 — 9 editions
The Sarajevo Haggadah [With...
4.33 of 5 stars 4.33 avg rating — 40 ratings — published 2010 — 2 editions
The Idea of Home
3.56 of 5 stars 3.56 avg rating — 16 ratings — published 2011
Dames and Daughters of Colo...
4.4 of 5 stars 4.40 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 1900 — 4 editions
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"Harvard's first Native American student graduated in 1665. Now, the writer who gave us People of the Book recounts his story in the historical novel Caleb's Crossing." ...More

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“To know a man's library is, in some measure, to know a man's mind.”
Geraldine Brooks, March

“You go on. You set one foot in front of the other, and if a thin voice cries out, somewhere behind you, you pretend not to hear, and keep going.”
Geraldine Brooks, March

“A book is more than the sum of its materials. It is an artifact of the human mind and hand.”
Geraldine Brooks, People of the Book

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