Geraldine Brooks

New York Times-bestselling and Pulitzer Prize-winning author Geraldine Brooks writes impeccably researched historical novels, including The Secret Chord, March, People of the Book, Year of Wonders, Caleb's Crossing, and Horse. A former Wall Street Journal correspondent for Bosnia, Somalia, and the Middle East, Brooks delves deeply into history with a journalist's eye for detail and a master storyteller's sense of character.

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Australian-born Geraldine Brooks is an acclaimed author and journalist known for her immersive, character-driven historical novels. Her fiction debut, Year of Wonders: A Novel of the Plague, was published in ten countries and was a 2001 Notable Book of the Year for The New York Times, The Washington Post, and the Chicago Tribune. An international bestseller, translated into more than 25 languages, it is currently optioned for a limited series by Olivia Coleman’s production company. For her second novel, March, Brooks was awarded the 2006 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, and her novels People of the Book, Caleb’s Crossing, The Secret Chordand Horse all were New York Times Bestsellers.

Geraldine is also the author of nonfiction works Nine Parts of Desire: The Hidden World of Islamic Women, and Foreign Correspondence: A Penpal’s Journey from Down Under to All Over, and The Idea of Home. Her latest book, Memorial Days, published this year.

Beginning her career at The Sydney Morning Herald, Geraldine later moved to the United States to attend the journalism master’s program at Columbia University in New York City. She then spent 11 years as correspondent at The Wall Street Journal, where she covered crises in the Middle East, Africa, and the Balkans. Geraldine was a fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Studies at Harvard University in fall 2005 and was the recipient of the 2010 Dayton Literary Peace Prize for Lifetime Achievement.