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Geraldine Brooks

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born
January 01, 1955 in Australia

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genre
Literature & Fiction, Nonfiction


About this author

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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Average rating: 3.85 · 101,653 ratings · 15,911 reviews · 13 distinct works
Year of Wonders: A Novel of...
3.93 of 5 stars 3.93 avg rating — 34,152 ratings — published 2001 — 47 editions
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People of the Book
3.89 of 5 stars 3.89 avg rating — 34,050 ratings — published 2008 — 50 editions
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March
3.65 of 5 stars 3.65 avg rating — 18,204 ratings — published 2005 — 27 editions
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Caleb's Crossing
3.77 of 5 stars 3.77 avg rating — 10,196 ratings — published 2011 — 24 editions
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Nine Parts of Desire: The H...
3.99 of 5 stars 3.99 avg rating — 4,100 ratings — published 1994 — 18 editions
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Foreign Correspondence: A P...
3.68 of 5 stars 3.68 avg rating — 445 ratings — published 1997 — 8 editions
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3.7 of 5 stars 3.70 avg rating — 337 ratings — published 2011 — 4 editions
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The Sarajevo Haggadah [With...
4.71 of 5 stars 4.71 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 2010
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The Idea of Home
3.5 of 5 stars 3.50 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 2011
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Dames and Daughters of Colo...
4.0 of 5 stars 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 1900 — 9 editions
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May 2011, Geraldine Brooks
"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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Quotes by Geraldine Brooks

“To know a man's library is, in some measure, to know a man's mind.”
― Geraldine Brooks
tags: from-the-book-march
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“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
tags: past , perseverance
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“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
tags: books
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